Feminism Quotes - Page 5

• Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

  Gloria Steinem

  Revolution

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

  Henry James

  Bored, Shut Up, Stills

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.603, Harvard University Press

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• It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  Aaron Allston

  Believe, People, Feminist

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• The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

  Betty Buckley

  Feminist, Identity, Way

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• The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

  Louise Brown

  Mother, Daughter, Clever

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• I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

  Susie Bright

  Feminist, Liberation, Active

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Equality, Water

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

  Charissa Thompson

  Mean, Unapologetic, Comfortable

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

  Elayne Boosler

  Funny, Inspiring, Women

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• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspiring, Equality, Men

  Equality Now Tribute Address, delivered 15 May 2006, Men on the Front Lines Honoree

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Men, Political

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with bell hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

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  There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

  Madeleine Albright

  Strong Women, Business, Independent Women

  "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.

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• The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Feminist, Males, Female

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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• Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Powerful, Movement, Addresses

  Richard Allen Epstein (1992). “Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws”

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• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Women, Sadness

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Mean, Legislation

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• 'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

  Marilyn French

  Hate, Feminist, Doe

  The Women's Room ch. 1 (1977)

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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Strength, Hate, Women

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• Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

  Susan Faludi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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