The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that.… — SZA Copy Share Image
I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“That wasn't enough. They weren't enough. Nor, she soon realized, was Will, though by every rational measure he ought to have been.… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I'm often asked if I'm a feminist. This I suspect has something to do with the fact that I write a column… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think. You know, it used to be, 10… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos,… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I can say that I'm a feminist and I try to be progressive and all that stuff. But I when I'm tired… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
“i have been told many times by family, friends, colleagues and strangers that I, a black African Muslim lesbian, am not included… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to… — Lizzo Copy Share Image
It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Truth is, there comes a time when turning a new page in your life is the most liberating and empowering feeling you… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is.… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
When I did get married, and specifically after I got married and the New York Times style section featured my wedding in… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Sexism occurs when we assume that some people are less valid or natural than others because of their sex, gender, or sexuality;… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
[Feminists think difference in men and women] is all social. It is all about social cliches and pressures, that if you just… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
![“Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of…” quote by Cheryl Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/cheryl-clarke-66010_customs_heterosexuality-is-a-die-hard-custom-thr_1105346.jpg)
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![“[Feminists think difference in men and women] is all social. It is all about social cliches and pressures, that if you just leave boys and girls alone they're gonna grow up and be identical. They're gonna be the same in the way they look at life, the way they find things interesting. Nothing could…” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/081/rush-limbaugh-28_boy-and-girl_feminists-think-difference-in-men-and-wo_925471.jpg)
