#feminism

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#feminism

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#feminism #feminist #how-to-be-a-woman #feminism

She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea. ↗

— Willy Russell

#feminism #feminist #homosexuality #homosexuality

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#gynergy #maternal-influence #motherhood #power #motherhood

Gaining weight and getting my head out of the toilet bowl was the most political act I have ever committed. ↗

— Abra Fortune Chernik

#eating-disorders

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. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#believe #define #everyone #feminism #god

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#children #dated #daughter #feed #feminism

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

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