"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
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"I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation."
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"Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter."
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"I've never been a feminist."
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"If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics."
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"It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them."
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"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
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"My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection."
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"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side."
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"Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause."
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"If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity."
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"There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability."
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"I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men."
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"A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics."
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"I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit."
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"Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?"
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"I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God.""
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"We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo."
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"We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community."
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"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."
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