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feminist movement

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the movement aimed at equal rights for women

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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. Bell hooks

The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. Bell hooks

Freudianism and Feminism grew from the same soil. It is no accident that Freud began his work at the height of the early feminist movement. Shulamith Firestone

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money. Beryl Bainbridge

Not all women, in fact, very few, have had the good fortune to live and work among women and men actively involved in the feminist movement. Many of us live in circumstances and environments where we must engage in feminist struggle alone, with only occasional support and affirmation. Bell hooks

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some. Judith Martin

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