Top Feminism Quotes
From the moment Julian entered the world, Florence had begun to conceive of life as separate from the aspects of its outward circumstances. Over and over, life renewed itself. Over and over, it made i...
Sana Krasikov
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family, politics, romance, mother, motherhood, communism, love story, feminism, america, soviet russia
Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly reproduc...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ug...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouti...
Sana Krasikov
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family, love, romance, mother, motherhood, communism, love story, feminism, america, soviet russia
Moscow appeared to her as an Asiatic sprawl of twisting streets, wooden shanties, and horse cabs. But already another Moscow was rising up through the chaos of the first. Streets built to accommodate...
Sana Krasikov
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family, politics, romance, mother, motherhood, communism, love story, feminism, america, soviet russia
Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and a cyber-spectr...
Christopher Hitchens
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death, life, music, literature, feminism, secularism, theocracy, iraq, osama bin laden, terrorism
The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclus...
Lori Ziganto
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attitude, life, men, women, inspiration, victim, victim mentality, feminism, gender, anti feminism
Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their searching hungry gazed returned to their own bodies....
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, feminism, sexuality, images, body image, magazines