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- Ani DiFranco:
- "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."
- "A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion."
- Annie Lennox:
- "We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice."
- "The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries."
- Mia Wasikowska: "Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down."
- Nancy Reagan: "Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do."
- Siobhan Fahey: "It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word."
- Judy Chicago: "Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions."
- Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichler: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
- Madonna Ciccone: "I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."
- Florynce Kennedy: "There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody."
- Betty Friedan:
- "Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill."
- "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."
- Gloria Steinem: "We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
- Cynthia Heimel: "One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney."
- Morgan Torva: "Tomboys are an assertion of reality, of practicality. Forced femininity is a waste of energy and resources, and therefore of oneself. Live to live."
- Elaine Boosler: "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
- Eleanor Roosevelt: "Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Betty White: "Why do people say “grow some balls?” Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding."
- Rita Mae Brown: "Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist."
- Anna Quindlen: "It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now."
- Elaine Heffner: "Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering."
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