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Quotes About Feminism

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
~ Tori Amos
I believe in peace, Bitch.
~ Tori Amos
Particular stories call us to accountability," feminist social ethicist Sharon Welch explains.50
~ Unknown
Sex-positive feminism embraces the entire range of human sexuality and is based on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom. - Madison Young
~ Tristan Taormino
Well-meaning friends suggest that I should drop the word "feminist," and perhaps the entire concept, because feminism is so "old hat." Young women today have lost interest in feminism because they believe it's antisex and that all feminists are man haters. Let me tell you something, girlfriends. That's exactly what the powers-that-be want us to think and do.
~ Tristan Taormino
If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.
~ Patrick O'Brian
more of a trend than a 'kult' – a set of wealthy feminists who suddenly found it cool to be submissive because they thought that no one had done it before, and because they could. So they became 24/7 subs (on finding the right master), and played the role enthusiastically.
~ Unknown
God loves a spirited woman who does more than sit with her hands folded as the world crumbles.
~ Unknown
The burning objective of Kate's "consciousness-raising" was "the destruction of the American family," as she deemed it "a patriarchal institution devoted to the oppression and enslavement of women and children.
~ Paul Kengor
State your name." "Venice Huber." "Occupation?" "Well, it's hard to say. I don't model, land of the seventeen bimbos. I don't act—after all, isn't an actress just a model who won't shut up? Let's say, oh—homemaker. Could you die?
~ Paul Rudnick
Feminists too often believe that no one has never experienced the kind of society that empowered women and made that empowerment the basis of rules and civilization. The price the feminist community must pay because it is not aware is necessary confusion, division and much lost time.
~ Paula Gunn Allen
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.
~ Pearl S. Buck
housework is bullshit
~ Peggy Orenstein
The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.
~ Cindy Sherman
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
~ Judy Chicago
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
~ Virginia Woolf
Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
~ Judy Chicago
I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.
~ Michelle Stuart
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
~ Robert Barry
I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman
~ Claire Bloom
Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.
~ Michelle Stuart
Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
~ Anne Hathaway
I think a lot of women will be in your situation. They're an important part of the workforce now, and they won't want to give that up when the men come home. They've gotten some independence, even if they're not paid as well as men. That's not fair, but at least they've gotten out of the kitchen, and into offices and factories. It's a big step for women.
~ Danielle Steel
Just because the sexes are equal doesn't mean that sex is.
~ Daria Snadowsky