Feminism Quotes - Page 8

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.

I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain ways, or use film as a way to examine, at that time, my own heterosexual experience. Lives of Performers was the beginning of that kind of investigation. But also, the film was influenced by the aesthetics and structures of experimental film as that was taking place at the same time. Hollis Frampton was a big influence on me at that time.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

I think that the word feminism doesn't imply enough in terms of solidarity with other liberation struggles. I am firmly committed to the notion that no one group can be freed until all groups are freed.

Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.

It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word.

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

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.