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 | "Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list
of women"s issues." | |
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Charlotte Bunch
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| "Feminism"s agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to
"choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women
be free to define themselves--instead of having their identity defined for
them, time and again, by their culture and their men." | |
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Susan Faludi
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| "I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the
meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to
love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon
self-love and self-respect." | |
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June Jordan
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| "I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a
masochist." | |
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Sally Kempton
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| "I owe nothing to Women"s Lib." | |
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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| "I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on
believing that some men are my equals." | |
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Brigid Brophy
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| "If I am what I have and what I have is lost, who then am I?" | |
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Erich Fromm
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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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Abigail Smith Adams
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| "Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of
girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers,
women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice
of this distinction was so apparent, that I resolved to claim for my sex
all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a
perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from
women." | |
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Lucretia Coffin Mott
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| "The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the
notion that men can be at home on the range." | |
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René Veaux
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| "Women"s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It"s the men who
are discriminated against. They can"t bear children. And no one"s likely
to do anything about that." | |
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Golda Meir
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