#feminist

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

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Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction. ↗

— Louise Mensch

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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

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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

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As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

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I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. ↗

— Courtney Love

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

— Laura Schlessinger

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