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Famous Feminist Quotations
Persona
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Persona wrote:
I'm going to post some quotes from the non fiction works of famous feminist authors. Each post will be a different quotation. Just to make u think. Feel free to discuss any of the quotations (whether you agree or disagree, etc) or add your own. This is not a list of 'quotes I agree with', just quotations that are famous or had some sort of impact. 

“It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who participates in (male) culture must achieve and be rated by standards of a tradition she had no part in making - and certainly there is no room in that tradition for a female view, even if she could discover what it was.” 
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:36
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BloomCissi wrote:
Omg, yes!

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You always make interesting threads by the way.
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:38
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.” 
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:38
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BloomCissi wrote:
@Claire 
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:39
Persona
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“As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism or vice versa. All such questions are rooted in competitive either/or thinking, the belief that the self is formed in opposition to an other...Most people are socialized to think in terms of opposition rather than compatibility. Rather than seeing anti-racist work as totally compatible with working to end sexist oppression, they often see them as two movements competing for first place.” 
― bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:41
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“...the end goal of feminist revolution must be...not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.” 
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:42
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“Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are “sex-negative” without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and domination to get laid, and without them the number of fucks would so significantly decrease that men might nearly be chaste.” 
― Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:45
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Claire wrote:
BloomCissi wrote:
Omg, yes!

 You've added the topic Famous Feminist Quotations to your watch list.

You always make interesting threads by the way.
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Date: 25-12-2017 23:54
Persona
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"Turning the other cheek is a philosophy for men. For 5000 years women have turned the other cheek, and every time we do, it gets slapped harder. Sometimes it gets slapped so hard we die. Only rulers can afford to turn the other cheek, not slaves." — Sonia Johnson, Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation
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Persona
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Persona wrote:
"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves" - Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Date: 26-12-2017 20:21
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Claire wrote:
"When a woman is poor and hungry, the humane thing to do is put food in her mouth, not your di***." Rachel Moran, survivor of the sex industry. The words of a former "sex worker". 

Maybe not famous, but she sure makes the point. 
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Date: 26-12-2017 20:36 | Times changed: 1
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Claire wrote:
My hero Catherine MacKinnon:

"Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children."

"Show me an abuse of women in society, I'll show it to you made sex in the pornography."
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Date: 26-12-2017 20:48
Persona
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“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.” 
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays
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Date: 26-12-2017 22:35
Persona
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Persona wrote:
“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.” 
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
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Date: 27-12-2017 02:13
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Persona wrote:
“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.” 
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
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Date: 27-12-2017 16:57
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Persona wrote:
“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?” 
― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
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Date: 27-12-2017 21:24
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