What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
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.
I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.
I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.
I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.
I still consider myself a feminist.
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