Feminist Quotes - Page 9

• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

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• Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

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• I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Obnoxious, Dehumanization

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• The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Guy, Dumb

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• In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world"

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Intelligent, Government

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• Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Feminism, Sexuality, Marxism

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1989). “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Perception, Fields

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• So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start trolling, ignoring them isn't really an option anymore. They are gradually making trolling normative. We have to start feeding the trolls: feeding them with achingly polite emails and comments, reminding them of how billions of people prefer to communicate with each other, every day, in the most unregulated arena of all: courteously.

  Caitlin Moran

  People, Email, Proud

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• I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

  Gary Bauer

  Intelligent, Government, Chinese

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• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  Felicity Kendal

  Hair, Bills, Fool

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• I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

  Lady G

  Men, Hail

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• The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Strong Women, Sex

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• My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, Gay, Analysis

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• The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Father, Real

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.... No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children... Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all.

  Linda Gordon

  Children, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• No [I'm not a feminist] because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men away from the power' is never going to work out because you need balance. With myself, I'm very in touch with my masculine side. And I'm 50 percent feminine and 50 percent masculine, same as I think a lot of us are. And I think that is important to note. And also I think that if men went down and women rose to power, that wouldn't work either. We have to have a fine balance.

  Shailene Woodley

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

  Audre Lorde

  Motivational, Sleep, Literature

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• I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Girl, Badass

  "The Hillary Doctrine". Interview with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Rights, Racist

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• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Smile, Girl, Dream

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.

  Helene Cixous

  Women, Writing, Self

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• Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman

  Jessica Valenti

  Hurt, Children, Women

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• Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

  Ntozake Shange

  Women, African American, Alive

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