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“You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake.”

People Thinking Persons Ends Fall Forget Feminism Ideals The End Of The Day Online Personal Life And At The End Of The Day

Author:Jessica Valenti

“We all are doing the best we can. I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”

People Knows Fall Too Much Feminism Classic Being A Woman

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.”

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Book:Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

Source: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

“Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.”

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Book:How to Be a Woman

Source: How to Be a Woman

“Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.”

Law Fall Sex Common Feminism Feminist Gravity Coercion Prevailing Common Law

Author:Judith Sargent Murray

“Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.”

“When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.”

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Book:Bad Feminist

Source: Bad Feminist

“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.”