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«When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.»
«Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.»
Author: Bella Abzug
| About:
Feminism,
Struggle,
Women
| Keywords:
appointed, assistant, assistants, assistant professor, professor, promoted, schlemiel
«We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.»
Author: Eva Burrows
| About:
Equality,
Feminism,
Men and Women,
Sex,
Sexes
| Keywords:
emphasize, emphasized, emphasizes, emphasizing, equality, era, eras, feminism, imitate, radical, sexes
«This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.»
Author: George Gilder
| About:
Feminism
| Keywords:
chiefly, liberates, liberation, sexual liberation
«I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| About:
Feminism
| Keywords:
Call Me, differentiate, differentiated, differentiates, doormat, doormats, feminist, People Express, prostitute, prostituted, sentiments
«The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.»
Author: Rene Veaux
| About:
Action,
Feminism
| Keywords:
feminist, feminist movement, helped, movement, notion, range, The Range
«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.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Feminism,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
determination, ended, feminism, open-ended, self-determination, to become
«Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.»
Author: Golda Meir
(Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Feminism,
Men and Women,
Sexism
| Keywords:
discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, foolishness, liberation
«The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Feminism,
Right,
Women
| Keywords:
countenance, countenanced, countenances, individual rights, The Battle, undermined, undermines, undermining
«We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth»
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