Feminist Quotes - Page 6

• The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Radical Feminism, Misandry, Institutions

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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• Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

  Alice Walker

  Purple, Lavender, Literature

  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens epigraph (1983)

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• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Radical Feminism, Choices

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Son, Radical Feminism, Inevitable

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Feminism, Revolution, Feminine

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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• We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Strong Women, Powerful, Empowering

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Practice, Feminism, Misandry

  "Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in" by Gregg Jarrett, www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

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• Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Men, Academia, World

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

  Bill Griffith

  Character, Alaska, Littles

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• I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only for the anonymous man who makes sucking noises on the street, not only for the rapist or the judge who acquits him, but for what the Greeks called philo-aphilos, 'hate in love,' for the men women share their lives with-husbands, lovers, friends, fathers, brothers, sons, coworkers.

  Judith Levine

  Brother, Husband, Father

  Judith Levine (1993). “My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender”, Anchor Books

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• Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

  Liz Stanley

  Reality, Ideas, People

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• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Wish, Feminism

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• Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Encouragement, Jesus, Real

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• Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

  Evelyn Cunningham

  Feminism, Groups, Association

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

  Betty Buckley

  Thinking, Class, White

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• I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.

  Robin Morgan

  Mean, Men, White

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Feminism, Firsts

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.

  Jessica Valenti

  Speak, Odd, Young Women

  Source: bigthink.com

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  There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

  Madeleine Albright

  Strong Women, Business, Independent Women

  "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Males, Movement, Academic

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• To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

  Tucker Carlson

  Cutting, Hair, Really Short

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