Feminist Quotes - Page 2

• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Wise, Men, White Man

  "Obama’s Hit — and Big Miss". Salon Column, www.salon.com. June 10, 2009.

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• Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

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• If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

  Crystal Eastman

  Baby, Pieces, Useless

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

  Betty Friedan

  Shining, Kitchen, Feminism

  "Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies aged 85" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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• Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

  Betsey Johnson

  Funny, Girl, Fashion

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• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Witty, Work

  Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

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• Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Views, Suggestions

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• Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.

  Jodie Foster

  Blow, Underdog, Rambo

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• Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Feminism, Literature, Venues

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• I still consider myself a feminist.

  Suzanne Vega

  Stills

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• I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Caring

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• The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Radical Feminism, Political, Culture

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

  Kathy Najimy

  Strong, Opportunity, Rights

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

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Religious, Hero, Airplane

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Believe, Feminism

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• I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

  Goldie Hawn

  Believe, Men, Way

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

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• No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

  Moses Sofer

  Feminism, World, Destroying

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• Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Radical Feminism, Body

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• Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

  Estelle Ramey

  Men, Feminism, Chains

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• I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Children, Father, Reality

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• Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

  Gloria Steinem

  Patriarch, Capitalism, Whole

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• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  Tammy Bruce

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.80, Crown Forum

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• Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Military, Cutting, Goal

  "Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat". eagleforum.org. June 1, 2005.

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• I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

  Joseph McCabe

  Rights, Years, Two

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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• It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

  Susie Bright

  Messages, Liberation

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