Lexi Juday’s Reviews > We Should All Be Feminists > Status Update

“ culture does not make people. people make culture. if it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture then we can and must make it our culture.”

“ some people say oh but women have the real power bottom power. But bottom power is not power at all because the woman with bottom power is actually not powerful. She just has a good route to tap another person‘s power.”

“ of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happened to me in the world because I am a woman.”

“Feminism is of course, part of human rights in general, but to choose to use the vague expression, human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have for centuries been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”

“We teach girls shame… we make them feel as though by being born female they are already guilty of something.”

“ we are all social beings we internalize ideas from our socialization. Even the language we use illustrates this. The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.”

“Gender matters everywhere in the world, and I would like today to ask that we should begin to dream about and plan for a different world, a world, a world of happier men and happier women who are true to themselves, and this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

“ Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”

“ it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.”

“Today we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative, and there is no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved, but our ideas of gender have not evolved much.”