Aunt Quote by Vera Farmiga Download Open image “We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.” — Vera Farmiga ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aunt Feminism Feminist Granted Mother Parenting Wave
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 Copy Share Image
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share
The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share
I had lots of jobs. For instance I sold lingerie. Doing that I realized how faking an eastern European or French accent can boost… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I'm not in this for the achievement. I'm in it for the illumination. That's how I choose my roles, that's how I attract roles,… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted attention, so I started praying for glasses because everyone had ace vision in my family. Then one day my… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table,… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few… — Sullivan Stapleton Copy Share Image
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image