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Type: Actress Quotes Category: American Actress Quotes Date of Birth: July 3, 1947 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Betty Buckley Related Authors: Marilyn Monroe Mae West Joan Crawford Katharine Hepburn Gilda Radner Lauren Bacall Bette Davis Bette Midler Lily Tomlin |
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
Betty Buckley Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? Betty Buckley I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me. Betty Buckley I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. Betty Buckley If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. Betty Buckley It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. Betty Buckley Our stories are different; our pain is the same. Betty Buckley 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. Betty Buckley The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. Betty Buckley The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. Betty Buckley The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. Betty Buckley We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do. Betty Buckley When there's an opportunity to do more, we must. Betty Buckley |
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