Feminism Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

  Jane Campion

  Feminist, Purpose, Clubs

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book, or that they are agents of change to some degree. In other words, the lens is focused deeply and intensely on the female characters and doesn't waver, which allows for a glimpse into the rich inner lives of the characters.

  Laurie Foos

  Book, Character, Glimpse

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Rights, Other Cultures, Names

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• My debt to feminism is simply incalculable. Feminism allowed me to see past a 'reality' that I had once taken as a given. It helped me to pay attention to countless voices, my own included, that I had been taught 'don't count.' Feminism allows me to maintain hope.

  Harriet Lerner

  Taken, Past, Reality

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• Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.

  S. E. Cupp

  Needs, Ultimate Success, Ultimate

  "Friday Interview: Has Feminism Outlived Its Usefulness?". Interview with Mitch Kokai, www.carolinajournal.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Rights, Talking

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.

  Eve Ensler

  Mean, Feminist, Skins

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.

  Kola Boof

  Feminist

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• The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

  Rachel Holmes

  Zero, Men, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Nastiness

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Moving, Economic Inequality, Neutrality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

  Ronee Blakley

  Partisanship

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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