Feminism Quotes
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While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
Marianne Williamson -
There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the “fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex.
Ernest Belfort Bax
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Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee -
Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
Steven Pinker -
Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.
Caitlin Stasey -
The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.
Elizabeth Lesser -
It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.
Kalki Koechlin -
Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
Cherrie Moraga
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You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.
Carine Roitfeld -
I’m against feminism. But what would you keep the children for? So they can get you a glass of water when you’re on your deathbed?
Valeria Lukyanova -
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.
Angela Davis -
I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
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We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
Melanie Klein -
The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.
Eleanor Holmes Norton -
I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.
Amandla Stenberg
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For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls -
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
Marianne Williamson -
I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'
Beyonce Destiny's Child