“Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.” Has BeensGirlFightingSupportFoundationMajorityFeministCampaignsOppressionBrutalTalibanAfghan Author:Eleanor Smeal
“The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.” TryingStillsMotherGirlRolesModelsFeministGenderBotherRole ModelsNot InterestedBourgeoisBeing A Mother Author:Louise Bourgeois
“I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It’s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you’re having, and lending your support to other women. It’s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.” TryingBelieveMatterGirlSupportFeministEmpoweringBelieve In YourselfLive ByMottoGirl PowerLendingCamaraderie Author:Melanie Brown
“Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.” MenWayMomentsCultureGirlForeverClaimsVictimFeministImpressedAdolescenceProstitutionPersonaConquerorHeroinesAlphabetOutlawYale Author:Camille Paglia
“The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."” YearsTogetherGirlClassHeardExcitingPressesFeministChecksHopefullyLabelsJuniorsJunior HighExciting ThingsHigh Class Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.” GirlCallingBandFeministI Realized Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.” IfsMenWayLittlesPersonsSometimesBeautifulGirlCoursesProcessAnswersHalfBoysSuccessfulCuttingHappenedTrainingFeministCarefulGenderMonstersVulnerableNightmareBrutalDeliberateSuggestingChunks Author:Frank Pittman
“The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.” PersonsMadePhilosophyYoungFallCultureGirlWorryMovementFeministAvailableDistressSexuallyFeminist MovementBe Your Own Person Author:Lily Tomlin
“I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.” PeopleBeautifulGirlFeministPretty Girl Author:Gloria Steinem
“Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantStillsYoungMotherGirlPoorMillionsKnow HowPercentSlaveFeministSexyGrandmotherYoung WomenPoorestMother And Grandmother Author:Isabel Allende
“If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys is more difficult. Raising egalitarian boys. One of the reasons you have to raise them that way is because it's better for them.” IfsWayReasonFactsGirlDifficultBoysIntelligentRaisesFeministIntelligent Girl Author:Anna Quindlen