Swara Bhaskar Quotes
Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life's decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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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.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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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.'
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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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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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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.
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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.
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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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.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.
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I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable. You should be labeled if you're f-cking crazy.
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Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
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There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don’t live your life trying to live someone else’s life. Be you!
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Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life's decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.
