#feminism

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#every #feminism #herself #idea #needs

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. ↗

— Brigham Young

#feminism #men #women #education

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition ↗

— Timothy Leary

#women #equality

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else. ↗

— Marilyn Waring

#economy #feminism #marketing #society #beauty

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.* ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#feminism #politics #religion

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#believe #between #conflict #family #feminism

I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#feminism #heart #i #i think #julia

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#feminism #philanthropy #politics #science #women-s-issues