#feminist

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. ↗

— Emma Watson

#been #bit #feminist #generation #i

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#feminists #rest #semantics

I want to write a book called, "Bonfires and Bras," which follows around a young, braless feminist who struggles to adopt in air conditioned rooms, as her hardened nipples cause her excess embarrassment. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bras #feminism #feminist #funny #humor

Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer, the mixed-blood, the violated-turning to the written page with a relentless passion, a drive to avenge their own silence, invisibility, and erasure as living, innately expressive human beings. ↗

— Cherríe L. Moraga

#feminist #the-last-generation #life

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#actress #care #career #college #determined

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#commensurate #discrimination #feminists #gain #jobs

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#choice #ethically #feminist #freedom #glamorous

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#advocating #choices #elevating #everyone #feminism

The world was hers for the reading. ↗

— Betty Smith

#feminist #reading #world