Quotes and Sayings About Feminist
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
-- Aaron Allston -
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
-- Adrienne Rich -
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!
-- Adrienne Rich -
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
-- Alice Glass -
Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.
-- Alice von Hildebrand -
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
-- Alice Walker -
My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.
-- Alley Mills -
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?
-- Amanda Marcotte -
I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.
-- Amber Heard -
I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.
-- Amy Lee -
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
-- Angela Davis -
Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'
-- Ani DiFranco -
The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal...
-- Ani DiFranco -
I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
-- Anna Quindlen -
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
-- Anne Hathaway -
Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.
-- Arielle Dombasle -
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
-- Arundhati Roy -
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.
-- Ashley Montagu
