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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… — Anna Quindlen
Destroy the family and you destroy society — Vladimir Lenin
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. — David Ben-Gurion
So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like… — Lorde
Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so.… — Lorde
I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something… — Lorde
Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say. — Lorde
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times — Katha Pollitt
Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice. — Ti-Grace Atkinson
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. — Judith Sargent Murray
[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior. — Crystal Eastman
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as… — Catharine MacKinnon
The word 'feminist' is a word that discriminates, and I'm not into that. I don't think there has to be a separation in life in… — Shailene Woodley
It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of… — Geri Halliwell
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own… — Laverne Cox
People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle… — Joss Whedon
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. — Homer
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have… — Germaine Greer
Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter… — Wyndham Lewis
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women… — Germaine Greer
I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up… — Henry James
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. — Wyndham Lewis

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