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I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next.
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.
My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?
I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.
In their ideological zeal, the feminists of the illiberal left don't seem to realize how they've given feminism a bad name.
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.
Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.
You can't market or commercialize feminism as an entity. One has to be careful. I aim to be about powerful women in my clothing.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
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.
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
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.
I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.
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.
I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.
Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.