Feminism Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are - you know, anti-feminists - they're the same people who say that feminism is ruining the family, yet when it behooves them to, they'll say Sara Palin's a feminist - when all of a sudden it works in their favor.

  Jessica Valenti

  People, Feminist, Favors

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Thinking, Media

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I saw an article where the manager of the Pussycat Dolls, which is kind of this like striptease band, girl band, said, oh well, the girls are totally third-wave feminist. This is what third-wave feminism is about. Like you don't get to use that word. You don't get to say that something is feminist as a way to sell back sexism to women, as a way to further consumerist ideas.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Ideas, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mean, Thinking, Gaga

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake.

  Jessica Valenti

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Social Pressure, Kind

  Source: scottlondon.com

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  Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

  Amelia Earhart

  Motivational, Strong Women, Blessing

  "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.

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• But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fighting, Battle, May

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• Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

  Judith Thurman

  Fashion, Sisterhood, Long

  "Caring about clothes" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

  Tavi Gevinson

  Process, Conversation, Discussion

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

  Melanie Klein

  Yoga, Self, Mind

  Melanie Klein, Anna Guest-Jelley (2014). “Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body”, p.104, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

  Gloria Steinem

  Community

  "Gloria Steinem On The Great Part Of Feminism:BBAACCSS1‘We Have Each Other’s Backs’" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Jobs, Others Opinions, Opinion

  "Fucking While Feminist, With Jaclyn Friedman". Interview with Amanda Hess, www.washingtoncitypaper.com. March 26, 2010.

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• If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

  Marilyn French

  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

  Dennis Miller

  Politics, Fields, Mines

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.100, Main Street Books

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• Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

  Maureen Dowd

  Kids, Years, Car

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• Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sex, Men, Dignity

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• I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!

  Jessica Valenti

  Daughter, Teenager, Luck

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• No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Real, Independence, Foundation

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• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Struggle, Heart, Political

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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