Best Feminism Proverbs
515 Feminism quotes by 275 unique authors
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Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend…
— Reynolds Price
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The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death…
— Camille Paglia
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I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether…
— Kathleen Hanna
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I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be…
— Annie Lennox
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Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -…
— Bell Hooks
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The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not…
— Anita Sarkeesian
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
— Frances O'Grady
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Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive…
— Christine Pelosi
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Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.
— Judith Thurman
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more…
— Judith Butler
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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…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
— Andrea Dworkin
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a…
— Aisha Tyler
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Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
— Gloria Steinem
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Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all…
— Andrea Dworkin
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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…
— Jessica Valenti
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A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than…
— Katha Pollitt
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A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could
— Greg Gutfeld
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Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class…
— Bell Hooks
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Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional…
— Roxane Gay
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Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process.
— Tavi Gevinson
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Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
— Melanie Klein
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Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.
— Gloria Steinem
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Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among…
— Jaclyn Friedman
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