Feminist Quotes - Page 26

• Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Men, Justice

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Perfect, Stifling

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• Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

  Jessica Pare

  Men, Fascists, Equal

  "Susan Patton: The Anti-Singlehood Crusader" by Erin Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2014.

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• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Dirty, Men, Thinking

  "Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade". Book by Matthew Rettenmund, October 15, 1996.

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• How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

  Debbie Harry

  "Debbie Harry: 'I'm more anonymous than Gaga or Madonna. I'm more of a cult figure'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

  Ann Coulter

  Sobriety, Rough Patches, Hussein

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• I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.

  Lydia Lunch

  Differences, Bigs, Humanist

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• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.

  Josh McDowell

  Tolerance, Christ, Homosexual

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• For me, now, feminist art must show a consciousness of women's social and economic position in the world. I also believe it demonstrates forms and perceptions that are drawn from a sense of spiritual kinship between women.

  Suzanne Lacy

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• Part of the problem of being a feminist is that you feel you have to be actively doing things 
to relieve women’s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking 
we should have the same rights as men.

  Evie Wyld

  Men, Thinking, Rights

  "Evie Wyld vs Naomi Wolf". Dazed & Confused head-to-head interview, www.dazeddigital.com. January 22, 2014.

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• Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

  Laurie Penny

  Fire, Careers, Problem

  Laurie Penny (2014). “Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution”, p.12, A&C Black

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• Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

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• Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn’t matter if you’re a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you’re Right, the Left is gonna hate.

  Michelle Malkin

  Mom, Hate, Home

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• Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

  Carol P. Christ

  Father, Psych, Hands

  Carol P. Christ (1987). “Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess”, HarperOne

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• I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.

  Bob Hoskins

  Very Strong

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

  Rebecca Hall

  Art, Thinking, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  Callie Khouri

  Would Be, Deny, Theme

  "Interview with Callie Khouri, Director of Mad Money". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

  Margot Robbie

  Hippie, Thinking, People

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

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• Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Girl, Fighting, Support

  "Why Is the Feminist Majority Foundation Refusing to Abandon the Women and Girls of Afghanistan?". www.alternet.org. July 16, 2009.

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• Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

  Cheris Kramarae

  Women, Bad Ass, Radical Feminism

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• I’m definitely a feminist & proud of it.

  Marin Alsop

  Proud

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• I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It’s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you’re having, and lending your support to other women. It’s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.

  Melanie Brown

  Girl, Believe, Empowering

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• Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

  Mary Daly

  Space, Creating, Pilots

  Mary Daly (2016). “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

  Camille Paglia

  Flower, Special, Males

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.44, Vintage

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