"This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity."
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"A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with."
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"When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry."
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"For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face."
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"Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics."
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"Perfection is a disease of a nation."
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"Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality."
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"I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist."
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"The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits."
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"I am a mom as well as a senator!"
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"I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women."
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"Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern."
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"Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation."
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"BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS."
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"It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function."
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"The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else."
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"To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness."
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"Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life."
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"... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose."
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"I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism."
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