Quotes by feminism
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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.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
''I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,'' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
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Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
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Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.
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Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
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Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
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Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
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Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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