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The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
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.
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?
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.
Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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.
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.
I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.
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.
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.
"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.
This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.
Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.
You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
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.
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.
Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.
He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.
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.
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.
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women.
There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.
I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.
Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.