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Feminism - I myself have never known what feminism is. I
only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express
sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (1913).
Rebecca
West, (British Author and social critic)
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex.
Might as well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (American social critic).
In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction
we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine
attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed
for men and forbidden to women.
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (American social critic).
It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded,
more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman,
lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded,
protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably
narrowed and weakened by it. The woman is narrowed by the
home and the man is narrowed by the woman.
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (American social critic).
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the
world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais
Nin (Author).
"To be feminine is to appear weak, futile, docile....any
self-assertion will diminish her femininity and her attractiveness.
(1949) Simone de Beauvoir (French author and social critic).
1960s:
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry,
Gloria
Steinhem (American journalist and founder of Ms. Magazine).
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine
marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinhem
(American journalist and founder of Ms. Magazine).
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her
sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.
Betty
Friedan (Author).
1970
We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where
we were in the twenties.
(1976) Margaret Mead (Author).
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we
hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us 'baby.'
Elizabeth Janeway (American social critic).
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and
physically, by this society and because I believe that the
women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge
of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of
the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children
and other living things, themselves included.
Adrienne Rich (American poet)
1980
We've got a generation now who were born with semi-equality.
They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't
too bad. We're working. We have our attache cases and our
three-piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger
generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are
just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away.
Things are going to have to get worse before they join in
fighting the battle.
(Erma Bombeck (Newspaper columnist).
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but
I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda
Meir (American Labor Movement activist and Prime Minister
of Israel).
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine
their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine
attribute. In fact power has no sex.
Katharine
Graham (American journalist and publisher of the Washington
Post newspaper)
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
(1985)
Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler (American social critics).
Femininity has a wider selection of masks to choose from
in the 1980s than in the era of romanticized seductions.
(1995)
Myra Macdonald (British author and sociologist).
‘Feeling good’ involves, for the postfeminist
woman, success in career, sexual life and appearance: in
all three cases, nothing is to be achieved without hard
work and commitment.
(1995) Myra Macdonald
(British author and sociologist).
Woman lives her body as seen by another, by an anonymous
patriarchal Other.
(1988) Sandra Lee Bartky (American
author and social critic).
The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display
the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so
admire in men.
(1988) Sandra Lee Bartky (American author and social critic).
1990
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very
open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself,
and do whatever she needs to do. Ani DiFranco (American
folksinger)
[Feminism is] an unquenchable and unkillable movement that
has come and gone or come and submerged throughout the world
in many different places in many different times.
Adrienne Rich (American poet)
The feminist movement of the ‘90’s is going off
in more directions than Don King’s hair in an electrical
storm.
Dennis Miller (American stand-up commedian).
Despite the Janet Reno size strides over the past twenty
years, there are still gender inequities in our society
that are more glaring than a freshly buffed diamond tiara
on the Bonevian Salt Flats at high noon.
Dennis Miller (American stand-up commedian).
Having drinks bought for you and being able to cry your
way out of a speeding ticket don’t make up for lower
wages, date rape, pick-up trucks with naked women silouhetted
on the mud flaps, no affordable child care, happy handed
boss, not being called on in class even when you know the
answer, and having to take most of the responsibility for
birth control.
Dennis Miller (American stand-up commedian).
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands,
kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism
and become lesbians.
Rev. Pat Robertson (At the 1992 GOP Convention).
When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves,
they're also working on reclaiming
the lost soul of the culture as well.
Maureen Murdock (Canadian author)
When women are shown in positions of powerlessness, submission,
and subjugation, the message to men is clear: women are
inferior to men and thus deserve to be dominated, and women
exist to fulfill the needs of men.
(1999) Jean Kilbourne (American author
and social critic)
Our entire culture is predicated on this illusion of male
dominance, and our institutions are set up in ways that
perpetuate it.
(1999) Jean Kilbourne (American author and social critic)
“The diversity of real women, potentially challenging
to male authority, is transformed into manageable myths
of ‘femininity’ or ‘the feminine.’
(1995) Myra Macdonald (British author and sociologist).
Feminist thinking questioned women’s ‘natural’
talent for caring, and reconstructed it as a social imposition
placed on women for men’s convenience. Feminists encouraged
women to get out of the home to develop their full potential.
(1995) Myra Macdonald (British author
and sociologist).
2000
Feminism is understood to include a recognition of the unequal
status of women economically, socially, culturally, and
politically, and a commitment to redress this condition.
(1979-present) The Women's Foundation,
San Francisco (Founded 1979).
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women
for their strengths.
(1980-1990?) Lois
Wyse (American author and newspaper columnist).
I just want equal rights for boys and girls - finished.
That's what feminism is to me. Not just legislate it - feel
it. Do it. Accept it. Want it.
(1960-present)
Billie Jean King(American professional tennis player and
sports commentator).
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