Feminist Quotes
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To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.
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I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.
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If I feel something, it's how I feel. I never say, 'I feel this way, so you should feel that way.' Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I just am who I am. But, yeah. I think you would call me a feminist.
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When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'
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Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
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I don't label myself a feminist. I love men, but I am all about promoting a better, healthier relationship between the sexes.
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.
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Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
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We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
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So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.
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I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.
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There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.
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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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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
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I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.
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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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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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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.