Elizabeth Fox-Genovese famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.
-- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.
-- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.
-- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.
One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese famous quotes

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