Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us."
Feminism quotes
Feminism
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Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."
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"Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there."
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"Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do."
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"She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it."
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"I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges."
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"In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world."
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"The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past."
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"The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison."
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"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."
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"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."
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"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."
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"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."
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"Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple."
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"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences."
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"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
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"Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels."
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"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
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"Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it."
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"I am too pure for you or anyone."
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"Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again."
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"Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere."
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