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A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.

Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

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

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.

before feminism was, Paglia was!

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.

Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

Feminism is small revolutions, every day

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.

Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.