#feminist

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#become #eventually #feminist #just #liberation

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle. ↗

— James Hillman

#back #bottle #careful #days #different

I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#feminist #woman #love

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious. ↗

— José Saramago

#philological #men

Ask what she would be if she wasn't a writer, this author replied: "Dead. ↗

— Ursula K. LeGuin

#science-fiction #science

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#feminism #feminist #how-to-be-a-woman #feminism

She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea. ↗

— Willy Russell

#feminism #feminist #homosexuality #homosexuality

The Girl Scouts allow homosexuals and atheists to join their ranks, and they have become a pro-abortion feminist training corps. If the Girl Scouts of America can't get back to teaching real character, perhaps it will be time to look for our cookies elsewhere. ↗

— Hans Zeiger

#cookies #feminist #girl-scouts #homosexuals #homosexuality

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#although #ancient #ancient times #born #catholic

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. ↗

— David Bailey

#feminists #had #hated #i #i think