Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still:"Not yet.
Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still:"Not yet.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
Ibsen wrote a kind of Times best seller he wasn't 100 years ahead of his time -- he was 10 years ahead. It was the feminist anthem of its time -- the YMCA of feminism.
A lot of people would say she is a feminist activist. I wouldn't say that. She became a leader without a banner. She's very creative and supportive of minority roles.
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
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.
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
I couldn't believe how many hours a day I was obsessing on it. And I thought, this can't be true, because I'm a radical feminist. But it was. So I thought I'd better look at what was going on beneath this obsession.
Feminism asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.
Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along
This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, 'How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the '60s, some bras were burned and now everything is fine'
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.
People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who
Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
Rebick said it's time for younger women to take over the fight for equality, adding she wrote Ten Thousand Roses out of fear the history of the women's movement in Canada would get lost. Following the rise of feminism during the 1960s to 1980s, we've seen almost a complete disappearance of the women's voice. A whole generation of women have grown up without any knowledge of the women's movement, ... There were no popular books on feminism so I wrote one.
If you said that Wendy was a feminist, she would say, 'I'm a humanist.' That (line)'s actually in The Heidi Chronicles . ... She managed to write from a very specific point of view for a very wide audience. And she had a wide variety of interests she was committed in many areas.
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else ... find themselves more affirmed by society ... Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.
'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
I think it has a pernicious effect on society. Hollywood projects a leftist homosexual agenda, which goes along with radical feminism, and a misunderstanding of what Christianity teaches.
because it lures women in with a marketing scheme that purports feminism, when in actuality the sole owner of the company is an active misogynist.
I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
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