Feminism Quote by Kathleen Hall Jamieson Download Open image “Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.” — Kathleen Hall Jamieson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Groupthink Metaphor Ought Powerful Sisterhood Synonym
Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“In some ways, no one is tougher on one another than sisters. Like parents, they're hyperaware of another's past foibles and faults; but, without the infinite parental capacity for love and forgiveness, they judge one another far more harshly for them. I swear there are times when they really might kill one another. Until, of course, one of them is… — Brad Parks Copy Share
Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource. — Claudia Black Copy Share Image
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba. OSTOBA! A melltartó a barátom. A legkebelebb baratom. Mellesleg. Kivéve az a Janet Reger-féle balconette melltartót, ami pár centivel kisebb volt a kelleténél, és elszorította a vérkeringést a fejem felé. Na ja. Azt az egyet lelocsoltam… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
“I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins… — Annastacia Dickerson Copy Share Image
“In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the apples into tiny bowls, tossed in some dried fruit and sprinkled them with crumble topping. Delicious, they said that night, scraping the bowls so clean… — Helen Brown Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social action designed to contest the gains made by the women's movement and the child protection movement. In efforts to characterise social workers and therapists as hysterical zealots, 'satanic ritual abuse' was, quite literally, 'made fun of':… — Michael Salter Copy Share
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
