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I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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.
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'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 grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
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.
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
"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.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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.
I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.
But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.
When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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.
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.
If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
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.
I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
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.
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.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.
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.
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.
There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
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.
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.
Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.
Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.