Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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• 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
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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 know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

  

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• I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

  

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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.

  

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• I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

  

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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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• A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

  

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• I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'

  

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• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  

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• I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

  

  Donatella Versace
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• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

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• I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

  

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• Groan and forget it.

  

  Jessamyn West

• Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Feminist