Damage Quote by Erica Jong

Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its…

— Cynthia Kauffman

“For those of you who skipped their women's studies classes, first-wave feminism got women the vote; second-wave got them employed and divorced; third-wave is…

— Kathleen Parker

I feel like so much of mainstream feminism springs from the second wave, which was essentially a discourse spearheaded by white, cisgender, upper middle…

— Hari Nef

Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this…

— Ani DiFranco

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

— Vera Farmiga

I saw an article where the manager of the Pussycat Dolls, which is kind of this like striptease band, girl band, said, oh well,…

— Jessica Valenti

“The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction…

— Anonymous

Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to…

— Betty Buckley

When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up.…

— Nina Tassler

“And though often forgotten, the more radical wing of the second-wave feminist movement also argued for fundamental challenges to the free market economic order.…

— Naomi Klein

With a lot of either unintended consequences or consequences that were hidden. The National Organization for Women and what I would call the radical…

— James Dobson