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Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. i know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. but that's ridiculous. my mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.

-Amy Poehler

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Women Need To Take Charge Of Their

Amy Poehler

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. i know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. but that's ridiculous. my mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.

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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in america. for me the great mission of feminism is to seek the full political and legal equality of women with men. however, i disagree with many of my fellow feminists as an equal opportunity feminist, who believes that feminism should only be interested in equal rights before the law. i utterly oppose special protection for women where i think that a lot of the feminist establishment has drifted in the last 20 years.

The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. the human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. and a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

Naturally my stories are about women - i'm a woman. i don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. i'm not always sure what is meant by "feminist." in the beginning i used to say, well, of course i'm a feminist. but if it means that i follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then i'm not. i think i'm a feminist as far as thinking that the experience of women is important. that is really the basis of feminism.

On girls i like being a mouthpiece for the issues i think young females face today. it’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. how could a show about women exploring women not be? feminism isn’t a dirty word. it’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.

We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. rights are grand things, divine things in this world of god's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. i can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

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