Kalki Koechlin Quotes
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.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.
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I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
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I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.
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Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
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The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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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.
