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• I’ve written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

  Bell hooks

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• The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.

  Hilary Mantel

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• Feminism hasn’t failed, it’s just never been tried.

  Hilary Mantel

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• I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

  Suheir Hammad

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• Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn’t understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

  Neil Strauss

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

  Rebecca West

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• Feminism – the word – can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

  Betty Buckley

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• One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

  Barbara Smith

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• I’ve thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn’t one. It’s a perfectly good word. And it can’t be changed.

  Annie Lennox

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• It’s tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

  Siobhan Fahey

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• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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• We all live in a time where we’re supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

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• Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor – they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed.

  Isabel Allende

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• My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

  Sandra Cisneros

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• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

  Rush Limbaugh

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• Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women’s intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

  Valentine de Saint Point

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• Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone’s satisfaction.

  Aaron Allston

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• It is the woman – nearly always – in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  A. N. Wilson

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• The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

  Pearl S. Buck

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