Essentialist Feminism Quotes & Sayings

Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, its homogenization of diverse social oppression; fourth, its simplification of the complexity and paradox of being privileged and unprivileged; and fifth its ruling out of intersectional space of diverse forms of oppression in reality. — Namsoon Kang

If this was what angels observed when they gazed upon our world, how we might murder each other and cause one another agony, then I pitied them as I pitied no others. — Alice Hoffman

raconteur quality, but then why should she? — Annette De Burgh

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column. — Emily Yoffe

Obviously I don't have a stylist for everyday stuff, but for a premiere or something usually the studio will hire someone. — Teresa Palmer

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended ... — Freya Stark

God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises. — Edward McKendree Bounds

If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won't work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh). — Dada Bhagwan

We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before. — Eve Ensler

But desperation does funny things to a person. Makes you grasp for any sliver of hope. Makes you throw rational thought and logic out the window. Makes you act in ways you would never have imagined possible. Turns strong men into weak. Honest men into liars. — Siobhan Davis