Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
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Feminist
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Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both."
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself"
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life"
Adrienne Rich
Poet, Essayist, Feminist
"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."
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"IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS."
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"But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either."
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"Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair"
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"I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born."
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"The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence."
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"My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it."
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"Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?"
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"I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence."
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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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"There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue."
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"In In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education."
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"To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try."
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"Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self."
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"I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it."
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"Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible."
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"I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping."
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"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."
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"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."
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"The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the state, the economy, and the family has had a powerful impact on public consciousness."
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"Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?"
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