#feminist

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#always #ever #feminist #gave #her

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#belief #creatures #deserve #equal #equal opportunity

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#feminists #first #lot #off #physical

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. ↗

— Justin Sane

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #demonstrated #feminist

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#feminist #had #i #me #movement

Le sens de la toilette féminine est manifest: il s'agit de se 'parer' et se parer c'est s'offrir; les feministes hétérosexuelles se sont montrées naguère sur ce point aussi intransiseantes que les lesbiennes: elles refusaient de faire d'elles-même une marchandise qu'on exhibem elles adoptaient des tailleurs et des feutres secs; les robes ornées, décolletées leurs semblaient le symbole de l'ordre social qu'elles combattaient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#feminism #feminists #symbol #beauty

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does. ↗

— Larissa Ione

#humor #humor

For as long as wimmin have had the temerity to experience feelings of anger, sadness, frustration, and deep resentment, patriarchal society has denied them these feelings, and, in fact, punished them heartily for feeling anything at all. ↗

— Elisa Albert

#humor #anger

What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists. ↗

— Rebecca Traister

#feminism #feminists #politics #sarah-palin #women

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#believe #bring #brought #children #drawn