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"I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be."
"Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism"
"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
"The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life."
"I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval."
"As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet."
"She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea."
"Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive"
"I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things."
"It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes."
"During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs."
"I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist."
"So this is feminist corner then."
"One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female."
"There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few."
"Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific."
"Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist."
"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."
"How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men."
"I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?"
