Feminist Movement Quotes - Page 2

• My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.

  Anna Holmes

  Mother, Issues, Rights

  "How Jezebel Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2013.

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• If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one another, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work.

  Bell Hooks

  War, Writing, Mean

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.87, Routledge

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• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

  Justin Sane

  War, Rights, Parent

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Buddhism, People

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or the success of the feminist movement, but rather as a profound evolutionary response to a pervasive cultural crisis. Feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the private domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive.

  Sally Helgesen

  Women, Divorce, Warrior

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• There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

  Bell Hooks

  Ideas, Long, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.113, Routledge

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• The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Feminist, Movement

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• It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership.

  Jessica Valenti

  Strong, New York, Organization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's a lot of women that wanted no part of this feminist movement way back in the late sixties. The modern era can be traced back to then. See, that's the thing. They portray it as though something every woman in America is part of and believes in. And it's not.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, Feminist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

  Diane Wilson

  Feminist, Mexico, Movement

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.

  Chris Hegedus

  Growing Up, Past, Careers

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children. I quoted him in my book. It's a fantastic statement.

  John Shelby Spong

  Children, Husband, Book

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.

  Amber Heard

  Perspective, Feminist, Movement

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

  Andi Zeisler

  Feminist, Capitalism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think. You know, it used to be, 10 years ago, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership.

  Jessica Valenti

  Strong, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.

  Bonnie Raitt

  College, Years, Feminist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.

  Asra Nomani

  Islamic, Men, Thinking

  "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Feminist, Want

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Grandmother, Unique

  Source: nefac.net

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• The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

  Susan Sontag

  Feminist, Important, Lucky

  Source: ctheory.net

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• People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to disseminate information and share resources, especially via social media.

  Andi Zeisler

  Powerful, People, Feminist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hippie, Paris, San Francisco

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of '68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Children, People, Feminist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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