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"How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister."
"I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality."
"The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves."
"He is a good kisser. I can definitely vouch for that."
"Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority."
"Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field."
"True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones."
"BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS."
"No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality."
"Men don't have the benefits of equality either."
"I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries."
"Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism"."
"Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us."
"I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'"
"There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all."
"There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it."
"When God made man she was practicing."
"Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists."
"I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all."