“If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.” IfsBelievePastFormDifficultSoundInterestGenerationsFeminismTraditionRelationPassingPassingsAnalysisDogmaDishesCrowdedHardened Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
“Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.” HumansStillsFactsSexDifficultDifferencesAnswersRaceClassFeminismMovementHumanismExtremesDenyLiberationWhy NotDifficult Times Book:Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out Source: Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
“If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible, disgusting comments ever. And sometimes the comments are pornographic, and sometimes the comments are really harassing. So I think that it's kind of a difficult place for women to write sometimes.” IfsThinkingWritingKindSometimesDifficultFeminismHorribleVideoCommentArticlesDisgustingAssaultYoutubeSexual Assault Author:Jessica Valenti
“I've become this voice for a millennial generation of feminism, which is awesome, but at the same time it's complicated. We all know I'm a girl, I'm a woman, but it's difficult to figure out how to talk about it and express how important it is without beating it with a hammer and having it be, "So you're a girl in music! So you're a girl in music!" Yes, I'm a girl in music - can we just talk about something else?” KnowsImportantGirlDifficultVoiceGenerationsFeminismFiguresComplicatedHammersMillennials Author:Bethany Cosentino
“Feminism means to me aquality, actually. Women having equal rights to every thing the male population have in all aspects. Whether that's socially, or within the household or in the workplace. I don't find it a difficult word but it does have a lot of baggage. There's still a lot of work to be done in various parts of the world and society. If you look at where a woman's place was a couple of generations ago, there's been a huge development and progression. And it's an important queston to keep bringing up.” WorldMeanImportantDoneDifficultFeminismCoupleEqualVariousWorkplaceEqual RightsProgression Author:Edith Bowman
“Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.” ThinkingFeelingsDifficultWomenAcceptingFeminismEgoIndependentComplexesMalesClassicFake PeopleBeing A WomanFeatsCambridge Author:Sylvia Plath
“It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!” IfsLooksDifficultFeminismKissingDatingBoyfriendMy Boyfriend Author:Emma Watson