Feminism Quotes - Page 39

• My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mom, Dad, Stupid

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Goal, Our Society, Cracks

  Shulamith Firestone (2003). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”, p.61, Macmillan

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• ...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Wall, Feminist, Degrees

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

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• I think that the early feminism at least overlooked the fact that partnership and children can provide happiness. It isn't the only way but for very many people it is the most important way.

  Kristina Schroder

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived - whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman.

  Junot Diaz

  Strong, Two, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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  It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  Madeleine Albright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

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• She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.

  Allison Williams

  Inspirational, Empowering, Firsts

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• I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

  Ellen Page

  Powerful, People, Feminist

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• It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Feminist, World

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• The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Freedom, Democracy, Criticism

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• I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.

  Laverne Cox

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  "Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2005.

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• When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

  S. E. Cupp

  Political, Decision, Movement

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• I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Movement, Hateful

  "Limbaugh: Miss America Contestants Know More About Politics Than Elected Officials". www.newsbusters.org. February 3, 2010.

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• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  Camille Paglia

  Dog, Sex, Vacation

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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• Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Government, Goal, Feminist

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• Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

  Frances Perkins

  Mean, Feminist, Women Empowerment

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• Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Rhetorical Strategies, Play, Political

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• The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

  Camille Paglia

  Careers, Issues, Life And Death

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• I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Growing Up, Men, Goal

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• I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

  Callie Khouri

  Thinking, Political, Ideology

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• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

  Camille Paglia

  Pills, Birth Control, Patriarchy

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage

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  The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Unique, Heredity And Environment

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

  Dennis Prager

  Pool, Happy Woman

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