“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?” IfsNeedsChildrenFactsHouseDifferencesWhitePoorDealsBehindsFeminismColorTheoryMen And WomenOur ChildrenCleanFeministOppressionYour ChildrenRacistConferencesFeminist Theory Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“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
“For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.” KnowsWayKindHouseBoysGrowing UpGrowingFeminismWesternMalesBunchSuitsPantsCostumesAppropriationWorkspace Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.” WayFeelsBigsTogetherHouseSoundPartyConsciousnessGroupsFeminismWaveHanging OutHouse Party Author:Ani DiFranco
“I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.” WorldHouseLanguageRealizingFeminismCollegeIdiotMakeupAcademic Author:Beth Ditto
“I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.” ThinkingMenProblemRunningHouseFeminismBrokenFemaleNotionBroken HeartBroken Family Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.” MenNeedsHas BeensProblemHomeHateHouseFeminismMarriedMadFeministRadicalPermissionWomens RightsBathroomHate MeSexistGalsTime Of DayAnti FeministCasper Author:Jerry Falwell
“Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.” WantYoungValuesHouseWifeFeminismFeministCorporateAssetsWomens RightsSuburbsRespectabilityYoung Wife Author:Ralph Nader
“It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.” PeopleWayHomeBodyHouseAirFeminismHatredShoesNewspapersDraught Author:Zadie Smith
“The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.” WayChildrenHas BeensStillsSufferingHouseStrongGivenSocialSexRolesToo MuchFeminismMovementAdultsFemaleMalesSocial ChangeDiscrepancies Author:Margaret Mead