Feminism Quote by Siri Hustvedt Download Open image ““American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.”” — Siri Hustvedt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Truth
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“There is no true femininity without sensuality. Otherwise it’s called feminism.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“we are living in an era when much of the feminism on display to the public is petty, mean-spirited, obsessed with trivialities, man-hating and… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women… — Rosalind Coward Copy Share Image
“Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
'Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of American culture and society,' and I'm sure in politics,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“The more people insist that feminism has won, the more they blind themselves to its remaining foes.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“Because, frankly, I have a tough time feeling that feminism has done a damn bit of good if I can't be the way I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt 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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“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.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“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… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“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… — Helen Brown Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“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