“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.” WorldGivingRealValuesLanguageProcessFeminismInfluenceEmpoweringReal WorkValue Systems Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.” WantedLanguageMy OwnGenerationsFeminismVideoAudioMultimedia Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.” MenWellsWarEndsHardPoliticalSpeakLanguageAnimalPartyFeminismChangedMarkMalesSoldierOfficialsReportersSitcomKimEdgyBakersChargingAfghanFeyApoliticalMissed OnesPolitical Animals Author:David Edelstein
“What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are - you know, anti-feminists - they're the same people who say that feminism is ruining the family, yet when it behooves them to, they'll say Sara Palin's a feminist - when all of a sudden it works in their favor.” PeopleKnowsWayLanguageFeminismFeministFavorsBotherAppropriatePalinAnti Feminist Author:Jessica Valenti
“My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.” WorldMadeBigsLanguageStepsFeminismStyleNew YorkHugePaperNewsStandardsGoldPressesGuidesLocalsMediumsAround The WorldPostsOutletsMistressNew York TimesSmall StepsGold StandardAmerican Language Author:Paula Broadwell
“What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.” KindDifferentRealUseAmericaLanguageVisionRightsFeminismMovementReturnTrumpImmigrationCivil RightsAppealsPensImaginaryTechnologicalGlobalizationMarineCivil Rights MovementNostalgicTechnological Change Author:Anne Applebaum
“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
“Young women know that something is off; they know that the world is a messed-up place. They know that the world is a sexist place because they've had experiences in their own life; they see things happening to their friends, to their parents. But because feminism isn't widely accepted, because they don't necessarily have access to feminist thought or to feminist groups, they don't necessarily have a language to put behind the feelings and the thoughts that they're having. And they certainly don't have a support system to let them know like, hey, that's okay; you're right, that is screwed up.” WorldFeelingsLanguageParentSupportFeminismOkayFeministAcceptedThings HappenYoung WomenSexist Author:Jessica Valenti
“It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity.” ThinkingArtDifferentTogetherLanguageInterestingFeminismUnexpectedFemininityImagery Author:Chitra Ganesh
“It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls” LanguageWomenFeminismFeministGirlsCensorshipPolitical CorrectnessLanguage PolicingMisguided Feminism Author:Jessica Roy
“Men have the power of naming, a great and sublime power. This power of naming enables men to define experience, to articulate boundaries and values, to designate to each thing it’s realm and qualities, to determine what can and cannot be expressed to control perception itself. [...] The world is his because he has named everything in it, including her. She uses this language against herself because it cannot be used any other way.” LanguageWomenFeminismSexismMisogyny Book:Pornography: men possessing women Source: Pornography: men possessing women
“A prisoner hears, “You are sentenced to life”; Nazareth felt that now, more sharply than she had ever had to feel it before. But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need.” LanguageWomenFeminismScience FictionSpeculative FictionNazarethPrisonersFeminist Fiction Book:Native Tongue Source: Native Tongue
“...spirit was wrenched from its organic origins, separated from the body - the mother {woman} and the goddess - the mother Earth or Earth Goddess. The new manifestation of spirit, projected in hierarchical terms, emanated from the father in whom the 'spirit of life' as sperm was ejected as minuscule baby into the womb {viewed as nutrient value only}. The father as reflected in early patriarchal mythology and later patriarchal science was believed the sole parent. The cosmic dimension of the same movement ripped spirit from its earth people origin and placed it above the people, in the sky as originating in an all-powerful Father - or male God. In patriarchal religious ritual spirit came to be owned and controlled as property in the one and same manner as women were owned. Patriarchs usurped the exclusive right to define, interpret, and evoke the spirit out of their experience and project it onto women and children, as they deemed that women and children 'should' experience it. The moving verb 'transcending' {synonymous with breath and spirit} changed to a static noun, 'transcendence,' separated from the body and woman. The hierarchical direction assumed ultimacy - 'down from up above' instead of the former direction of 'up from down under.” SpiritReligionLanguageFeminismMythologyGoddessPatriarchyMother Earth Book:The journey is home Source: The journey is home