Feminist Quotes
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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
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I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
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I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.
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I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.
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No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
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If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
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The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?
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We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.
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In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist.
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There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.
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The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.
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If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.
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The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.
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If you were really a feminist, you'd support housewives. You'd see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting their time!
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If people see anything I do and the way I live my life, there is no ambiguity about me being a feminist.
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In the industry, I am judged by what I wear. If I want to be taken seriously, I have to hire a team of stylists. It's an occupational hazard. But it's not as though I am any less of a feminist.
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It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.
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My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.
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I assume that most people’s default setting is feminist, until they do or say something that makes me think otherwise.
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When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.
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If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.
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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.
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How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.
