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The Many Battles of Nina Simone
- I would like to see films that explore and ennoble female characters on a feminine path: not sexual accessories to men, and not honorary men, but fully inhabiting once-neglected and demeaned feminine archetypes.
from Feminine Power by Charles Eisenstein
Stuart Evans added
“Over and over again, the world has been changed by people who, at the outset, seemed far too puny to pit themselves against the most powerful institutions of their time” - Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua
Sirnesto added
the Charlie girl didn’t so much reflect the new vision of young, liberated white femininity as it did present it as a superior alternative to actual feminist activism.
from We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler