"I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive."
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"I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist."
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"I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where we focus on women! We tried for a minute, but we don't want to lose the category all of a sudden. We haven't heard yet from the females with children called mothers, we haven't heard yet from all these groups!" On the one hand I'm very sympathetic to that, but the category of Women or Mothers, any of these categories, are on shifting sands and always have been."
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"There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics."
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"I think I was a feminist before the word was invented."
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"I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth."
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"In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated."
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"I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women."
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"There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work."
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"There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber."
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"I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist."
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"A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some."
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"Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?"
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