Emma Bonino Quotes

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

The personal is political for so many.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

I think the political is personal, and the personal is political.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

The women’s movement is at heart revolutionary for it aims at a fundamental reorganization of all forms of human living together, a reorganization that perhaps Social Democracy does not even dream of.

The #MeToo movement is a very important movement. It's messy. And it's complicated. And there are places where it's going to overreach.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.