Feminism Quotes - Page 33

• I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Blogging, Internet

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

  Jessica Valenti

  Groups, Way, Consciousness

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't have this sort of checklist of things that have to be done, andif they're not checked, then I've failed some part of my feminism or my being a woman or my worth and my value as a woman because I haven't birthed a child. I've birthed a lot of things, and I feel like I've mothered many things. And I don't feel like it's fair to put that pressure on people.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Children, People, Done

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• Abortion-centered feminism is dead.

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Abortion

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• Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  War, Fall, Thinking

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

  Roxane Gay

  Women, Believe, Collective Effort

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Cancer, Men

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• Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Reality, Understanding, Challenges

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• Stop telling women to smile.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Women

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

  Roxane Gay

  Sex, Hate, Men

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The personal is political.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Political, Politics

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• for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

  Vivian Gornick

  Self, Political, Social Reform

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Powerful, Lying, Rights

  Olympe de Gouges (1989). “The Rights of Woman”

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• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  Kaz Cooke

  Opportunity, Rights, Feminist

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• Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

  Bridget Christie

  Bird, Fads, Example

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• People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.

  Bridget Christie

  People, Needs, Need A Change

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• What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.

  Antero Alli

  Crazy, Real, Yarn

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• I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

  Megan Griffiths

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  "Strong Women". Interview with Julia Edelman, logger.believermag.com. February 17, 2014.

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• To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

  Amy Schumer

  Mean, Men, People

  "Amy Schumer Answers Your Questions About Sex, Comedy, and Feminism". Q&A with Readers, jezebel.com. April 29, 2014.

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• The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Believe, Years, Goal

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• Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

  Robert Webb

  Men, Practice, Roles

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• Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

  Roxane Gay

  Believe, Responsibility, Fighting

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Leader

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Silly, Winning

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

  Julianna Baggott

  Reading, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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