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“Feminism should be less concerned with individual choices than the conditions in which they were made”

Choices Feminism Individuality

Author:Helen Lewis

“I we open up sport to women, it sends a message that wanting leisure time is not being selfish or unreasonable.”

Women Feminism Leisure Sport Leisure Time

Author:Helen Lewis

“Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard”

Play Women Work Feminism Work Hard

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“Perhaps you are thinking: I don't care about sport. Well, neither did I. But now I realise that's partly because sport did not seem to have a place for me.”

Sports Feminism Place Sport

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“Feminism has to fight 'the tyranny of niceness'. It is, and has always been, one of the most potent forces holding women back.”

Feminism Niceness

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“If feminism doesn't frighten people with power, it is toothless.”

Power Feminism

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“Your vagina is not a democracy. No one else gets a vote on what you do with it.”

Feminism Vagina Bodily Autonomy

Author:Helen Lewis

“It is deeply conservative to suggest that any sufficiently difficult woman from history -- say, one who rebelled against the constraints of femininity by dressing and acting in a masculine way -- must have been a man.”

Feminism Lesbian Gender Non Conforming

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“There is no perfect way to make a demand on power. There is no way to do feminism which will protect you from being attacked. You have to be honest with yourself: am I really being unreasonable? Or is the problem with the rest of the world? If it is the latter, then don't be derailed.”

Feminism

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“The suffragettes were easy to condemn, but hard to ignore. Their actions also boosted donations to peaceful, law-abiding suffragist societies. Many of those who claimed to be repelled by the militants were what we would now call "concern trolls" pretending to care about the success of a movement they never supported anyway.”

Feminism Women S Liberation Suffragettes Women S Movement

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“Changing the world is always difficult.”

Feminism Women S Rights Women S Liberation Women S Movement

Author:Helen Lewis

“Changing the world won't make people like you. It will cause you pain. It will be difficult. It will feel like a struggle. You must accept the size of the mountain ahead of you, and start climbing it anyway.”

Women History Feminism Activism

Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

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