Feminist Quotes - Page 18

• Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between two people.

  John Pierrakos

  Unique, Bridges, Two

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• I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

  Felicity Jones

  Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I just don't know any other word than "feminist" that describes a person who believes women are people.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, People, Persons

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• Women are feminist by default.

  Caitlin Moran

  Default

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

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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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• 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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• No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

  David Attenborough

  Sides, Humanist

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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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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• There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Running, Class, Organization

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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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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• Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

  Dolores Huerta

  Majority, Movement, Wonderful

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.

  Pam Grier

  Believe, Rights, Female

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing.

  Liv Ullmann

  Two, Voice, Three

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine.

  Mel Gibson

  Problem, Don't Like Me, Mines

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]

  Meera Menon

  Wall, Unique, Views

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Plus

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• I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And also just [her] being a non-conformist.

  Jose James

  Holiday, Artist, Rights

  Source: revive-music.com

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• I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Men, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

  Hozier

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists.

  Stephen Marche

  Males, Needs, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.

  Toni Morrison

  Sex, Battle, Generations

  Source: wordmag.com

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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

  Important, Lucky, Movement

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Taming, Shrews, Causes

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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