Feminism Quotes - Page 36

• Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Men, Behavior, Threatened

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Queens, Tired, Reality

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

  Robin Morgan

  Girl, Ethnicity, Age

  "International Women's Day: In defence of feminist dissent". www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2014.

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• When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

  Julie Burchill

  Eye, Thinking, Saws

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• The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Smart, Men

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• Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Mean, Men

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• I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

  Nellie McKay

  People, Care, Considering

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• I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Two, Silence, Feminist

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.

  Adrienne Rich

  Integrity, Commitment, Issues

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• ...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Feminist, Reform, Kind

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.

  Joan Hackett

  Mean, Rights, People

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• ... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness whichconstitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.

  Jan Clausen

  Integrity, Poetry, Quality

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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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