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Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.
Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.
The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.
Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?
Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.
I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.