Feminism Quotes - Page 9

• If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

  Jessica Valenti

  Powerful, People, Influential

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• I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace. 

  Mary Portas

  Thinking, Needs, Workplace

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

  Roxane Gay

  Believe, Choices, Certain

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

  Katha Pollitt

  Men, Justice, Feminist

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• Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Talent, Bent

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Why did Hillary [Clinton] go to Arkansas? Why does she put up with it? In the beginning era of feminism she's considered one of the leading lights. Why does she put up with it? And the short answer is :She's nominated president, the Democrat Party candidate.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Light, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Thinking, Rights, Gender

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The universal religion - contempt for women.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Contempt, Universal

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• What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.

  Stephen Marche

  Real, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The media is such a huge piece of how we understand feminism, particularly celebrity feminism, and I really do think that so much of how that stuff gets filtered through can be either finessed or really stymied by how media talks about it.

  Andi Zeisler

  Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Issues, Achieve

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• Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

  Jerry Falwell

  Philosophy, War, Biblical

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• Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Mother, Responsibility

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.35, Anchor

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• The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

  Annie Lennox

  Taken, Men, Needs

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• Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

  Annie Lennox

  Issues, Goal, Zeitgeist

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• I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

  Annie Lennox

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  "Annie Lennox: 'The world has become more sexualised'". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

  Annie Lennox

  Country, Hate, Men

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• I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

  Annie Lennox

  Beautiful, Gay, Population

  "The world has become more sexualised" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Good Friend, Views, California

  "The Way Things Ought to Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, p. 193, 1992.

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• Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Lying, Looks

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• The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.

  Pat Robertson

  Player, Keys, Chess

  "The 700 Club". TV series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

  Alison Bechdel

  Years, Mainstream Culture, Starting

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• We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than just another girl who has one. We should be able to do these things without failing the feminism of our mothers, and we should be able to represent women who hurt without walking backward into a voyeuristic rehashing of the old cultural models.

  Leslie Jamison

  Girl, Mother, Hurt

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.174, Granta Books

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• The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

  Sylvia Plath

  Regret, Past, Classic

  "Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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• I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, People, Raw Materials

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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