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“Men did care enough to struggle with our demands. And some cared enough to convert to feminist thinking and to change. But only a very, very few loved us loved us all the way. And that meant respe...”
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into a world of infinite possibilities. Female ...”
“Not all men rape. Some molest and others observe!”
“being the woman that i am will make a way out of no way..[these are the words of all women of color who assert who they are, who create sound out of silence, and who build worlds out of remnants. (282”
“Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anything in the meat and matter of our living cells that makes us naturally better but because we're tr...”
“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”
“No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.”
“Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers called attention to the way this notion of love serv...”
“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class power who were among the first group...”
“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”
“To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!”
“Lifestyle feminism ushered in a notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being slowly removed from feminism. And the assumption prevail...”
“Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions. We have those definitions. Let's reclaim them. We can share the simple yet powerful message that feminism ...”
“Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white power would diminish if nonwhite people gaine...”
“When women with class power opportunistically use a feminist platform while undermining feminist politics that helps keep in place a patriarchal system that will ultimately re-subordinate them, the...”
“Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same.”
“Woman-identified women, whether straight, bisexual, or lesbian rarely make garnering male approval a priority in our lives. This is why we threaten the patriarchy. Lesbian women who have a patriarc...”
“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.”
“Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.”
“To slur feminism into humanism is to usurp womens voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.”
