“There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.” LiteratureStudyFeminismRiversThirdsRateFeministCuresScholarObscurity Author:Florence King
“...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.” WorldMayStudyFeminismDangerWallDegreesFeministContemplationNarcissismAbsorbing Book:A woman of fifty Source: A woman of fifty
“The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."” FirstsSaidFactsBlackWhiteClassStudyFeminismBlack WomenBourgeoisReacting Author:Bell Hooks
“There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll see how it goes. I think that we lucked out in that all of the women who started writing at Feministing.com were really funny, and I don't think that's something people are used to seeing or hearing when they read feminism. You know, you think feminism and you kind of think academic, women's studies, dry, humorless; there are all of these stereotypes that go along with what feminist thought is and what feminist writing is.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindRealDecisionStudyFeminismFeministAcademicStereotype Author:Jessica Valenti
“When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.” FeelsWomenStudyDoubtFeminismCapacityFeministPursuitNo DoubtWomens RightsTriflesIngenuityUndertakingsWomen RightsWomen Right Author:Julia Ward Howe
“American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.” TryingMadeSelfSexStudyFeminismTheoryPityNosesPieMudKateSelf PitySexistPoisonousMud Pies Author:Camille Paglia