#feminism

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#best #call #cheap #days #fad

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#defense #direct #expression #feminism #hated

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#chain #change #feminism #first #food

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#feminism #people #think #tragic #word

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#asks #basic #between #choose #feminism

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#entire world #feminism #issues #just #laundry

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#date #dealt #feminism #harassment #issues

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer. ↗

— Jane Campion

#any #belong #club #clubs #dislike

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #dreams #empowerment #equality #feminism

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#beings #feminism #forms #humanism #i