F Quotes
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“Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.”
“Feminism and other ideologies have seeped into the modern psyche, affecting how we view relationships. Instead of seeing each other as humans, partners, or soulmates—people who support one another through low points and show genuine care—we’re quick to label our partners at the first hint of an "ism." From there, things tend to spiral. A marriage should be about being true life partners, setting aside social politics, which have no place in a relationship.”
Source: Dark Rooms
“Feminism as a career is the province of the privileged; it's hard to read dozens of books on feminist theory while you're working in a hair salon or engaged in the kinds of jobs that put food on the table but also demand a lot of physical and mental energy.”
Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.”
“Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.”
“Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".”
“Feminism can no longer remain a rhetorical tool; it must have teeth. It must fight back by providing us with a way of analysing global violence and laying the foundations to combat it.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.”
“Feminism deserted me when I was around Nico. I thrilled to his chivalrous behaviour of opening doors, walking on the dangerous side of the street, and twisting the cap off a bottled water for me, but he was far from a gentleman in the bedroom. - Ivy -”
Source: Scorned Love
“Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.”
“Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.”
“Feminism doesn't get the credit for the concept that women have equal value; the Bible taught this concept first.”
Source: Is God a Misogynist?: Understanding the Bible's Difficult Passages Concerning Women
“Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!”
“Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many”
“Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians :)”
“Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.”
“feminism for the 99 percent seeks profound, far-reaching social transformation. That, in a nutshell, is why it cannot be a separatist movement. We propose, rather, to join with every movement that fights for the 99 percent”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.”
Source: Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body
“Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.”
“Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.”
“Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than those of the feminine and undermined the metaphors that aligned these broad aspects of experience with gender. So, there goes women and nature. What does it leave us with? One thing is a political mandate to decentralize privilege and power and equalize access, and that can be a literal spatial goal too, the goal of our designed landscapes and even the managed ones -- the national parks, forests, refuges, recreation areas, and so on.”
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.”
“Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.”
“Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.”
“Feminism has left us with a confusion about the male and female roles...Maybe if a woman grows and births children and is constantly demanded upon, perhaps their partner (whatever their gender) needs to be intuitive and fill in the gaps. Isn't that common sense, or is that wishful thinking?”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.”
“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
“Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.”
“Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.”
“Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.”
“Feminism has to fight 'the tyranny of niceness'. It is, and has always been, one of the most potent forces holding women back.”
Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
“Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.”
“Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.”
Source: An Experiment in Love: A Novel
“Feminism, in essence, is itself a giant female support group, where women (mostly) offer each other support and encouragement—literally, pass on courage to one another.”
Source: Accidental Feminists
“Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.”
“Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.”
“Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.”
Source: Bad Feminist: Essays
“Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.”
“Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”
“Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.”
“Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore. It doesn't matter who the individual women are. They all have the same vulnerability to rape, to battery, as children to incest. Poorer women have more vulnerability to prostitution, which is basically a form of sexual exploitation that is intolerable in an egalitarian society, which is the society we are fighting for.”
“Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.”
“Feminism is a political project about what could be. It's always looking forward, invested in futures we can't quite grasp yet. It's a way of wishing, hoping, aiming, at everything that has been deemed impossible.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“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.”
“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
“Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.”
“Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.”