Top 1200 Radical Feminist Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!
The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don't police people on what they call themselves, but equality and a general sense of togetherness are really important to me.
We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.
I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.
When I don't wear makeup, it's not because I'm lazy, but it's me making this radical bid for the feminization of my body and being confident in that.
I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.
...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.
It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.
Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
I'm fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I'm a woman and a feminist. I'm transgender. I'm an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
My family taught me radical politics from the beginning, but I also learned to prove myself in elite institutions.
To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.
I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.
I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.
As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.
I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.
The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.
As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.
In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.
Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.
I think in the '80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of 'Playboy Magazine' in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.
I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.
How people watch and the different ways they connect to TV - you're going to see some expansion and radical transformation.
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.
Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.
There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.
I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.
Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.
I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.
