Feminism Quotes - Page 11

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.

A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?