Feminism Quotes - page 2

Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous.” In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men. (Camille Paglia)
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e. g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition. View quote
Camille Paglia
Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter. View quote
Bell hooks
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term "feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be "feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression. View quote
Bell hooks
Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC-which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries-has swallowed wholesale the lies and distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, man-hating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy ‘research'. View quote
Melanie Phillips
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. View quote
Pat Robertson
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear. View quote
Neil Strauss
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism. (Helen Fielding)
For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. View quote
Annie Lennox
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. View quote
Michel Onfray
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. View quote
Betty Buckley
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. View quote
Betty Buckley
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female. View quote
Barbara Smith
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues. View quote
Charlotte Bunch
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. View quote
Crystal Eastman
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down. View quote
Jessica Valenti
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. View quote
Jessica Valenti
I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual. View quote
Kenny Loggins
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. View quote
Kavita Ramdas