#feminist

At a small dinner with other business executives, the guest of honor spoke the entire time without taking a breath. This meant that the only way to ask a question or make an observation was to interrupt. Three or four men jumped in, and the guest politely answered their questions before resuming his lecture. At one point, I tried to add something to the conversation and he barked, "Let me finish! You people are not good at listening!" Eventually, a few more men interjected and he allowed it. Then the only other female executive at the dinner decided to speak up--and he did it again! He chastised her for interrupting. After the meal, one of the male CEOs pulled me aside to say that he had noticed that only the women had been silenced. He told me he empathized, because as a Hispanic, he has been treated like this many times. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#business

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ↗

— Rebecca West

#differentiate #doormat #express #feminist #i

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#because #cannot #compelling #deep #fathers

I'm not a feminist at all. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#i

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#feminist #i #myth #think #you

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#deals #ever #feminist #lesbian #out

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#color #create #culture #develop #experiences

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#big #big difference #difference #feminist #humanist

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#any #feminist #guard #i #myself

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#academic #elite #feminist #men #originating