“Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.” KnowsWellsUsedConsciousnessGroupsMomRaisedFeministMy MomStairs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.” ShouldLittlesMadeStillsMotherFatherParentHalfGenerationsExampleMomDadTerribleFeministDinnerCooksSplitsHouseholdChoresMom And DadHousehold Chores Author:Emily Oster
“Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?” MeanMomFeministMotherhoodSillyOld Fashioned Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“I hate Mother's Day. If anything, it's an affront to all women who think full-time moms have never worked a day in their lives. Which reminds me of a good joke: What do you call an angry feminist on Mother's Day? You don't.” IfsThinkingMotherHateMomJokesI HateAngryFeministMothers DayAffrontFull Time Mom Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.” BookRomanceReadingNovelMomDadDown AndMajorityHistoricalMy DadFeministMy MomIdiotRomance Novel Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.” TryingYearsHomeYoungCareersRolesMovementMomPicksFeministYoung WomenDisabledStay At HomeFeminist MovementStay At Home MomMentally Disabled Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before I identified as a feminist myself, I thought of feminism as more of a historical term describing the women's movement in the '70s but didn't know much about what they had done and didn't think it applied to my life at all.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveDoneValuesI BelieveTermHeardFeminismMovementMomHistoricalRaisedFeministMy MomDescribing Author:Julie Zeilinger
“My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsMadeSaidBigsUsedGirlStuffCan DoChurchForeverCuttingViolenceMomFirst TimeInspiredFeministCrowdsMy MomMagazinesDomestic ViolencePostersYellingHousewifeBasementsInspired To Work Author:Kathleen Hanna
“My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...” DoeCultureObjectsBrotherMomFeministMy MomMy Brother Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms.” YearsHomeCareersEmotionalMomFeministProofDesperationAgeingStay At HomeGloriaCareer WomenStay At Home Mom Author:Camille Paglia
“I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist, she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.” ThinkingWayLooksAttitudeMomIntellectualModelsFeministCelebrateProfessorsCrucialApologizingEquipmentModeling Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.” JobsSpeakUnderstandingPositionGrewMomGrew UpFairsPrivilegeFeministRelative Author:Jennifer Weiner
“When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant." My mom was a feminist in the '20s. She taught me to be on my own, to be independent, to do what I wanted to do. I did not believe it would be difficult. It was difficult. In '66, I almost starved for a year and a half, and the only way I did not starve was because I could not find a job in camera, but I found a job in editing.” BelieveSchoolDifficultChanceMomIndependentFeministMy MomIrrelevantCinematography Author:Babette Mangolte
“I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I had this skewed idea of feminist: I thought it meant being a woman who hates men. When I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists, I was like, "Oh, this is what my mom taught me. This is simple. I don't understand why everybody is not this."” MenWorldHateSimpleMomAuthorityFemaleFeministMy MomBrandingHate Me Author:Trevor Noah