Feminism Quotes - Page 40

• So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

  Patti LaBelle

  Motivational, Mean, Giving

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Mar 07, 2013

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• I am too pure for you or anyone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Classic, Being A Woman, Purity

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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• Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

  Julian Assange

  Arabia, Sweden, Saudis

  "Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

  Kate Millett

  Goal, Nuclear Families, Revolutionary

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• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Radical Feminism, Class, Feminist

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.42, Routledge

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• Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Motivation, Struggle, Inspiration

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• Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

  Andrea Dworkin

  Bravery, Males, Patriarchy

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• Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Fighting, Practice, Class

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• Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

  Jessica Valenti

  Believe, Position Of Power, Racism

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• A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could

  Greg Gutfeld

  Empowering, Doe, Empowering Women

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• Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Men, Race

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.45, Routledge

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• Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Fighting, Slavery, Should

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• The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Silence, Classic

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Men, Opportunity

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

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• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.

  Aisha Tyler

  Careers, Want, Able

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• Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Important, Movement

  "Taylor Swift Tops The 2015 Maxim Hot 100". Interview with Jessica Roy, www.maxim.com. May 12, 2015.

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