Feminist Quotes - Page 11

• My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

  Marilyn French

  Inspirational, Motivational, Civilization

  "Marilyn French, Novelist and Champion of Feminism, Dies at 79" by A. G. Sulzberger, Herbert Mitgang, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2009.

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• If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Quality, Would Be

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

  Shana Alexander

  Marriage, Husband, Eye

  Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”

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• I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Upset, Stuff

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• The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Skins, Citizens, Body

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• Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Feminism, Age

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Believe, Bad Ass

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Father, War

  Hillary Cinton's speech at the conference on domestic violence in San Salvador, El Salvador, clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov. November 17, 1998.

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  I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Witty, Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

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• We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

  Caitlin Moran

  Humanity, Important, Earth

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• I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek the full political and legal equality of women with men. However, I disagree with many of my fellow feminists as an equal opportunity feminist, who believes that feminism should only be interested in equal rights before the law. I utterly oppose special protection for women where I think that a lot of the feminist establishment has drifted in the last 20 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.

  Katy Perry

  Believe, Thinking, Goal

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• I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

  Lady Gaga

  Beer, Men, Car

  "6 Famous Women Who Say They're Not Feminists". www.glamour.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

  Carrie Underwood

  Strong, Negative, Female

  "A Venn Diagram of Hollywood's Confused Feminists" by Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. October 12, 2015.

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• If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.555, Open Road Media

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• This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Reflection, Engagement

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life And Love, Intelligent, Feminism

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• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminism, Dumb Things, Unattractive

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

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• I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

  Frances O'Grady

  Problem, No Problem

  "Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.

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• Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, People, Movement

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Doubt

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• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  Nancy Astor

  Funny, Women, Empowering

  My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)

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• I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the things they believe in. I wants to show young women that while feminists of the past did incredible work and that while the relative equality we experience now is due to their hard work, we still have a ways to go. We still have to fight for our rights and be vigilant in terms of keeping the rights we do have.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Believe, Hard Work, Fighting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Success, Business, Women

  "International Women’s Day: Celebrate the Noisemakers of Past, Present, and Future" by Natalie MacNeil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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