Doris Lessing Quotes
I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.
Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
Felicity Jones
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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 feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
Yuna
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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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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 general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
Hanna Rosin
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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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I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
Zooey Deschanel
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No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.
Kamila Shamsie
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There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.
Wright Patman
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The success of monetary policy should be judged by the economy's performance against our statutory mandates of price stability and maximum employment.
Jerome Powell
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I saw 'Into the Woods' maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I'm very familiar with it.
Marc Platt
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Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
H. G. Wells
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I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.
Doris Lessing
