#feminist

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#easier #feminist #i #like #pretending

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#i #know #still #taboo #why

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#fed #feminist #gone #movement #reality

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#because #cannot #compelling #deep #fathers

Labelling is no longer a liberating political act but a necessity in order to gain entrance into the academic industrial complex and other discussions and spaces. For example, if so called “radical” or “progressive” people don’t hear enough “buzz” words (like feminist, anti-oppression, anti-racist, social justice, etc.) in your introduction, then you are deemed unworthy and not knowledgeable enough to speak with authority on issues that you have lived experience with. The criteria for identifying as a feminist by academic institutions, peer reviewed journals, national bodies, conferences, and other knowledge gatekeepers is very exclusive. It is based on academic theory instead of based on lived experiences or values. Name-dropping is so elitist! You're not a "real" feminist unless you can quote, or have read the following white women: (insert Women's Studies 101 readings). ↗

— Krysta Williams

#academic-industrial-complex #academy #feminism #feminist #feminist-theory

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#i #personally #puritans #stand

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#like #men #seem #wish #women

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#california #call #challenges #coined #davis

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#capable #certainly #chip #comes #consider

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist? ↗

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

#hard #i #just #mean #out