Feminist Quotes - Page 17

• ...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Feminism, Reform, Kind

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• ...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Wall, Feminism, Degrees

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Men, Ideas, Eras

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• Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Black, Used

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Strong, Lying, Believe

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• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  Eva Figes

  Fashion, Strong, Queens

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• [There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.

  Gerda Lerner

  Christian, Religious, Women

  Gerda Lerner (1994). “The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

  Camille Paglia

  Suffering, Feminism, Sound

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• What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.

  Mary Blakely

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Son

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• I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are ready to look back and actually appreciate some of what came before. And then you really do have the entire movement that I'm just going to call feminist, because I am a feminist. I think the education of young girls and women about what came before has started and I think that the knowledge of Fanny is part of that.

  June Millington

  Girl, Thinking, Space

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

  Ilana Glazer

  Gender Equality, Gender, Feels

  "'Broad City's' Ilana Glazer And Abbi Jacobson Are 'Totally Feminists'". PopSugar Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2014.

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• I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Explains Why He’s A Feminist", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2014.

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• One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

  Nancy Ruth

  Wine, Risk, Impossible

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• When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

  Florence King

  Women, Mean, Rights

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• There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me right now, and school me on some things I've never known, and that's amazing, you are a scholar, you are wise, you are educated. But the unfortunate thing is also the reality, and the fact is, millions of people might not even know who these educated feminists are - hundreds will, thousands maybe.

  Lizzo

  Wise, School, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

  Natalie Dormer

  Girl, Definitions, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Views

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right to self-determination, and wouldn't want anybody to stop them from becoming themselves. They just refuse to recognize the relationship between their lives and those of other women, or feel any solidarity there.

  Ani DiFranco

  Determination, Believe, Self

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• You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

  Caitlin Moran

  Boys, Employment, World

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Girl, Growing Up, Fun

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mom, Jobs, Understanding

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Husband, Years, Hobbies

  "Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 30, 2011.

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• [Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material consequence of my being a woman - a wife, mother, housewife, and a certain kind of feminist teacher - attentive, one-on-one, face-to-face, nurturing, the kind who receives high ESCI evaluation scores from undergraduates and graduate students.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Mother, Teacher, Book

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• A woman who pretends to be a feminist shouldn't be taking money from countries where women are stoned, where women are killed for adultery, where women can't drive, Hillary Clinton's taken hundreds of millions of dollars from those countries.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Taken, Dollars

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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