Feminism Quotes

• The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Feminist

• My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Believe
  • College
  • Goal

• Women are forced to pretend to be men. They're feigning this toughness. They're miserable. Study after study has shown that feminism has made women less happy. They're not happy in the work force, for the most part.

  

  Gavin McInnes
  • Force
  • Unhappy
  • Feminism

• It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

  

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  • Political
  • Feminism
  • Relations

• When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in the world for all people. Women's rights is one aspect of it, it's not the end-all, but I also think that the women's issue is the strongest entry point that we've got to challenging extremism. You raise a woman's issue and you get the backs of the conservatives up against the wall faster than just about any other issue in our community. It's the fastest path that we've got to making change happen.

  

  Asra Nomani
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Community

• There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings.

  

  Bonnie Greer
  • People
  • Human Beings
  • Feminism

• Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Abuse
  • Accounts
  • Radical

• Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

  

  Amy Richards
  • Women
  • Feminism
  • Reinspired

• Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Feminist
  • Socialism

• Feminism is the belief that women should have equal social, economic and political rights. We don’t have these yet, and so that is the point of feminism.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Women
  • Rights
  • Feminism

• It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dirty

• Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

  

  Mia Wasikowska
  • Simple
  • Knows
  • Feminism

• Feminism is the theory of gender oppression. To assume automatically that this makes it the theory of sexual oppression is to fail to distinguish between gender, on the one hand, and erotic desire, on the other.

  

  Gayle Rubin
  • Gender
  • Feminism
  • Oppression

• Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • Mean
  • Comfortable
  • Unapologetic

• I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  

  Judy Chicago
  • Art
  • Feminism
  • Humanism

• That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Comfort
  • Advancement
  • Haunting

• Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Problem
  • Racism
  • Sexism

• Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Capitalism
  • Feminism
  • Inequality

• I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • Picture

• To quote Helen Lewis the journalist, ‘the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism’.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Journalist
  • Article
  • Helen Lewis

• We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Ideas
  • Clear
  • Century

• Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Formative

• Young girls getting into feminism.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Girl
  • Young
  • Feminism

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