“I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions.” Quote by Joe Budden
“In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.” MenNeedsWellsNeed A Change Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.” IfsWantIdeasLeftWhat You WantRejectsHierarchy Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.” IfsWantMomentsProblemHandsRiskFeminismFeministAriseRadicalRevolutionaryThat Moment Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.” WayFeminismOne WayAttacking Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.” MeanDifferentWholeLeftClassStruggleFeminismMovementExtremesRevolutionaryClass StruggleLeftists Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.” IfsMenWould Be Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.” KindEndsProblemWould BeCertainHoursMillionsLaborBlowFlyingRevolutionaryCapitalistMasculineAlliancesPresent DayHousework Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.” MenMadeTogetherResultsTalkingStruggleFeminismMovementMen And WomenLettersFeministCoffeeBeing TrueFranceHypocrisyRottenFraternityLeftistsTrue Equality Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.” ForceLosingFeministAlliesTrickyLeftistsSpecificity Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.” ImportantSometimesHelpingAcceptingCuttingConditionsPositionAmbitionStandardsPostsMasculinePersonal Success Author:Simone de Beauvoir