Bob Hoskins Quotes
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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
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
Laura Kightlinger
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
Laura Schlessinger
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
Natalie Dormer
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
Ida Lupino
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
Wendy E. Long
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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
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I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
Tavi Gevinson
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I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
Naomi Wolf
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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
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The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
Natalie Portman
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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
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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
Madison Marlow
