Feminist Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

  Isabelle Holland

  Feminism, Knows

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• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Pride, Giving, Feminism

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• The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

  Barbara Bergmann

  War, Book, Two

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• For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

  Katha Pollitt

  Feminism, Answers, Humans

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”

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• [talking about word "homophobia":] I myself don´t like "gays" - and let me stress that I don't consider that word a synonym for "homosexual" - in the same way that I don't like Communists and Feminists as advocates of a harmful and stupid ideology. But have no fear of them.

  Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

  Stress, Stupid, Gay

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• I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

  Roxane Gay

  Sex, Hate, Men

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

  Judith Plaskow

  Religion, Feminism, World

  Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins

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• For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

  Judith Plaskow

  People, Religion, Oxymoron

  Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins

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• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  Kaz Cooke

  Opportunity, Rights, Feminism

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• The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Women, Humanity, Principles

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• The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.

  Charlene Spretnak

  Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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• In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Fall, Flower

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