#feminism

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#badge #basic #basic things #being #empowerment

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

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#become #elitist #feminism #goals #life

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #days #embarrassment #feminism #herself

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #attributed #been #bill #changes

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#because #breaks #dangerous #dangerous thing #era