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In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.
Jessica Valenti
Time
Me
Young
Older
Obama
Counterparts
Over
Voted
Hillary
Democratic
Hillary Clinton
Feminist
Clinton
Traitor
Barack
Barack Obama
Who
Many
I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.
Jessica Valenti
Love
Changed
Kind
Constantly
Feminist
Maybe
Being
Canon
Moving
Really
I get asked a lot about being a woman within the industry and how difficult it is, and yeah, it is - but it's difficult for everybody... I'm not a 'burn-your-bra' feminist.
Jessie Buckley
Woman
Difficult
Everybody
About
Industry
Within
How
Yeah
Feminist
Lot
Get
Being
Asked
Many people say, 'Your dad was so ahead of his time,' and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he's very much for opportunities for all people... To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.
Jill Ellis
Time
People
Opportunities
Sense
Say
All People
People Say
He
Him
Feminist
His
Truest
Very
Soccer
Much
Your
Many
Dad
Player
I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.
Jill Scott
Myself
Think
Feminist
Person
Whole
Necessarily
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
Jo Brand
Book
Desperate
Bit
Ate
Through
Read
Halfway
Got
Feminist
Issue
Fat
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.
Joan Didion
Analysis
Distinctions
Those
Moral
Seemed
Determinism
Remained
Mainly
Particularly
Narrow
Feminist
Ambiguity
Cracked
Committed
May
Us
Exploration
Who
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
Jodie Evans
Me
Eyes
Equality
Feminism
Says
About
Someone
Firm
Feminist
Wall
Wall Street
Roll
Going
Works
Street
I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.
John Legend
Women
Half
Ways
Make
Make Up
Am
Feminist
Women Are
Up
Discriminated
Against
Many
Population
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
Joseph McCabe
Rights
Women
Three
Thirty
Find
Within
Am
Feminist
Years
Years Ago
Existence
Left
Began
Human
Human Existence
Sane
Monastery
Two
Defending
I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
Joss Whedon
Feminist
Hardcore
Raised
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
Judith Butler
Gay
Before
Lesbian
Say
Would
Feminist
Queer
Theorist
Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.
Judy Chicago
Husband
Considers
Himself
Feminist
Donald
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
Julie Burchill
Good
Men
Definitely
About
Part
Most
Feminist
Frightening
Being
Fun
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
Julie Burchill
Me
Woman
Fear
Free
Own
Says
Feminist
Times
Should
Body
Her
Right
I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.
Julie Burchill
God
Old
Believe
Christian
Jews
Well
Understand
Lord
Feminist
Testament
Literally
Old Testament
Whom
Socialist
Zionist
There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.
Julie Christie
Films
Bit
Some
Because
Feminist
Were
Refused
Aspect
If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have.
Justin Trudeau
Best
You
Respect
Equality
World
Progressive
About
Because
Making
Feminist
Really
Should
I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
Kaley Cuoco
Work
Women
Equality
Girl
Demanding
Before
Way
Faced
Never
Know
Because
Around
Inequality
Feminist
Lot
Maybe
Happened
Paved
Really
George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
Karen DeCrow
Strong
Election
Summer
He
Ally
Come
Around
Feminist
George
His
Very
Did
Hard
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
Karen DeCrow
Strength
Marriage
Women
Despite
Fable
Beyond
Partners
Educated
Feminist
Women Are
Movement
Rejected
I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.
Karyn Kusama
Son
Humanity
World
Mother
Compassion
Him
Am
Feminist
Go
Want
Now
Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal acts. And yet, in 'Rosemary's Baby,' I think he's made one of the crowning feminist statements in film.
Karyn Kusama
Life
Great
Made
Example
Personal Life
Think
Baby
Criminal
Statements
Great Example
Has-Been
Scandal
Fraught
Crowning
He
Clearly
Feminist
Been
Person
Personal
Just
Transgression
Film
Whose
Acts
It's not my place to tell anyone what kind of feminist she should be.
Katherine Ryan
Tell
Kind
She
Feminist
Anyone
Place
Should
In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.
Kathleen Hanna
Love
Speak
Men
Important
Singing
Own
About
Allies
Masculinity
Terms
Does
Feminist
Hear
Just
Being
Place
Them
Your
Damage
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
Kathleen Hanna
Work
Important
Whatever
Honored
Vein
Also
Felt
Feminist
Artist
Just
Really
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