Feminist Quotes - Page 34

• I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.

  Kristin Davis

  Thinking, People, Upset

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

  Kelly Brook

  Children, Independent, Class

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.

  Leslie Bibb

  Men, Doors, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

  Saffron Burrows

  Strong, Thinking, Quitting

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• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  Tammy Bruce

  Christian, Dream, Encouragement

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  War, Wish, Movement

  "Exclusive Interview: Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers". www.pbs.org.

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• I consider myself a rampant feminist.

  Cindy Gallop

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• I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

  Cindy Gallop

  Goes On, Term

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• I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

  Carla Bruni

  Family Love, Family Life, Active

  "'My generation doesn't need feminism': Former French first lady Carla Bruni says a woman's place is in the home" By Steve Nolan, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 26, 2012.

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• I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

  Jane Campion

  Feminism, Purpose, Clubs

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Numbers, Want, Kind

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• I do consider myself to be a feminist.

  Isla Fisher

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• I'm not a feminist at all.

  Kirsty Gallacher

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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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• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  Frances O'Grady

  Teenager, Hero, Eye

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• I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

  Amy Lee

  Trying, Needs, I Love Myself

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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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• I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Believe, People

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking

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  The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

  Madeleine Albright

  Issues, Reason, Made

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

  Mina Loy

  Feminism, Movement, Inadequate

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• I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Believe, Dogma

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