I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person. I'm not just breasts or ass or thighs - I'm a whole being! And it just seems like women aren't necessarily striving to be the whole of themselves.
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.
I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!
Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.
The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do. . . birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.
In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.
I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily basis by the enormous gender divide in the U. S. literary world. But I don't know how to deal with it, so I don't tend to say much about it.
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando. " But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.
There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from a human rights context. But there's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals specifically, which says women are going to have their rights eroded by virtue of the fact of these courts are going to negotiate settlements and negotiate the dropping of criminal charges against men. There's not been any evidence of that taking place.
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.