Feminist Quotes - Page 4

• Most women are one man away from welfare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equality, Men, Feminism

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• Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Power, Men, Names

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

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• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

  Germaine Greer

  Coffee, Home, Men

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• I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

  Courtney Love

  Play, Hanging Out

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• Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.

  Marilyn French

  Sex, Eye, Home

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• All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Political, Today

  "50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know" by Susie Hodge, Quercus, (p. 270), September 29, 2011.

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• I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Women, Smart, Giving

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• Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

  Clifford Geertz

  Female, Anthropology, Scholar

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• I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Liberation

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• In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Choices, Intercourse, My Own

  "They took my body from me and used it" by Andrea Dworkin, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

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• I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. 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, Real, Believe

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• I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

  Marlo Thomas

  Thinking, Doubt, Labels

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• We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

  Katha Pollitt

  Epidemics, Trying, Males

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

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  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Country, Strong Women

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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• I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

  Margaret Trudeau

  Men, Rose, Feminism

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• Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Home, Men

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• The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Feminism, Males, Female

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  Tammy Bruce

  Men, Problem, Modern

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.81, Crown Forum

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• To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

  Suzanne Vega

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

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• Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

  Mary Daly

  Keys, Revolution

  Mary Daly (2016). “Quintessence...Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

  Tammy Bruce

  Reality, Gone, Movement

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.79, Crown Forum

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• Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

  Bell Hooks

  White, Ease, Able

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.

  Robert Bork

  Radical Feminism, Western Culture, Movement

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• Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

  Mel Gibson

  Offensive, Don't Like Me, I Don't Like You

  "Mel Gibson’s Sexist Interview Answers From 1995 Are Relevant Again". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1995.

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