“Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.” WayFoundSidesVoiceFeminismLateComplicatedArguingLiberationFence Author:Steve Coogan
“The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.” IfsMenFoundBoysFeminismIdeologySexuallyInsatiable Author:Donald Symons
“My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.” NeedsFirstsBelieveStillsFoundGoalAliveGenerationsFeminismMediaInformationCollegeMy FamilyOriginalsSpread Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.” KnowsWayCountryHomeRunningFoundHouseLeftFeminismMomMy Mom Author:Joss Whedon
“I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.” IfsWorldWritingTryingLittlesMightTogetherFoundBitsFeminismLittle BitStrongerBraveVersionsBack TogetherAnother Woman Author:Roxane Gay
“The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.” FoundSexChanceClassFeminismIntellectualFemaleImprovementEducatedWomens RightsOccasionalIntercourse Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.” IfsWayUsedFoundConsciousnessGroupsFeminismInvolvedMeetingsUsed To BeActivistGet Involved Author:Jessica Valenti
“There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.” FirstsGuyFoundFeminismWaveOne Direction Author:Amanda Palmer
“The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.” MenFactsFoundEasyFeminismEasierAbortionSixtyContraception Author:Julie Burchill
“The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and I realised that I really hated her. How do you play someone that you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.” PlayWholeCharacterJobsHateFoundFeltInterestingRolesFeminismKissingI HateInsightActressesI RealizedVainHatedSuperficialBoyfriendReally InterestingMaterialisticSomeone You Hate Author:Emma Watson
“Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.” WorldWayMeanMightMovingUsedGirlFoundGivenUnderstandingWomenHurtFeminismEqualFindingsConstantThreatMereObligationApologyPermissionCorridorsDecoratingBeing A Girl Author:Clementine Ford
“As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.” WorldTwoMatterMomentsRomanceFoundGamesSpeakFantasyNovelDoubtFeminismPrideTypeReturnLoversPagesIdealsDatingPrejudicePassionateDecadesPartnersNo DoubtTidesRetreatCourtshipPrototypeHepburnDarcyTracySparringTantalizingSparring Partner Author:Stephen Holden