Feminist Quotes - Page 31

• I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspiration, Order, Guy

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 2014.

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• I'm not a feminist at all.

  Kirsty Gallacher

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• (T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

  Tammy Bruce

  Choices, Politics, Moved

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• Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?

  Leighton Meester

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• I believe great people do things before they are ready.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, People, Please

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find The Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Sex, Believe

  "Aniston was no 'Sex and the City' fan". Vogue Interview, www.today.com. November 13, 2008.

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• We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Teach, Womanhood

  "Beyonce: Gender equality is a myth" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

  Brit Marling

  Men, Salt, Feminine

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

  Meghan Trainor

  Meaningful, Love You, Opportunity

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

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• I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Struggle, Thinking, Students

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.243, Duke University Press

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• The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.

  Janice Raymond

  Powerful, Creativity, Self

  Janice G. Raymond (1980). “The transsexual empire”

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• Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Justice, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.71, Routledge

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• If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist . There is nothing natural about sex, according to feminist ideology, no biological urge that causes women to be attracted to men.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

  Amber Heard

  Different, Amber, Done

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• You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

  Sally Hawkins

  Thinking, Rights, World

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• Who laughs less than feminists?

  Tucker Carlson

  Laughing

  "Crossfire" with Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. May 26, 2004.

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• No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.

  Lily Rabe

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

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• We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

  Camille

  Men, Voice, Debate

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• Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Color, Justice

  "A Note on Visibility in the Wake of 6 Trans Women’s Murders in 2015". janetmock.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Motherhood, People, Offensive

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• Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  War, Fall, Thinking

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

  Roxane Gay

  Women, Believe, Collective Effort

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• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  A. S. Byatt

  Imagination, Make Me Angry, I Can

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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