#feminist

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

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

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Men are scumbags until they prove they're women. ↗

— Robin Mellom

#humour #love

Change happens very slow and very sudden. ↗

— Dorothy Bryant

#feminist #metaphysics #science-fiction #change

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

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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. ↗

— Mary Daly

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I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#artist #felt #feminist #honored #i

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle. ↗

— James Hillman

#back #bottle #careful #days #different

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#access #almost #could #debate #dominated

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#criticized #establishment #fair #fair game #feminists