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Movement Quotes by Roxane Gay
- When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name…
- In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.
- 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…
- This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.
More Movement Quotes
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt
- The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. — Michele Bachmann
- An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the… — Clara Barton
- Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an… — Glenn Beck
- And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
- The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied… — Vinoba Bhave
- During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden
- No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. — Theodore Bikel