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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/1
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Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/2
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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.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/3
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It's babe feminism - we're young, we're fun, we do what we want in bed - and it has a shorter shelf life than the feminism of sisterhood. I've been a babe, and I've been a sister. Sister lasts longer.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/4
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What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/5
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Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/6
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In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/7
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[Feminism is] about women having intrinsic value as persons rather than contingent value as a means to an end for others: fetuses, children, the "family", men.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/8
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I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/9
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormate or a prostitute.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/10
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To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/11
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Does being a feminist mean that I believe I'm as good as any man? Yes.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/12
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Feminism is a dirty word ... because your feminists are so ugly. Every picture I saw of those women at the nuclear plants, they were not pretty. So I didn't want to be associated with feminism because I thought it would make me ugly.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/13
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all civil and political rights that belong to the citizens of the United States be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/14
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/15
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/16
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/17
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/18
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I’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am —and this ought to be made very clear—I am a very serious woman.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/19
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The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.
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Portal:Feminism/Selected quote/20
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...I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights, human rights are all that I recognise.
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