Feminist Shakespeare Quotes

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much," said Iago. "Methinks the lady protests just the right amount," said Emilia. "Methinks the lady is just getting fucking started protesting.

Are we to deny our daughters the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck or Shakespeare?....Where is the equality in banning girls from enjoying wonderful works of literature?....What kind of society defines suitable reading material by sex? This is indefensible censorship encouraging ignorance and bias. [About Caitlin Moran's statement.]

I can't see why feminists don't demand that The Taming of the Shrew be cancelled and expelled from libraries. It's diabolical, even for those times.

The real thing that got me thinking were his female characters. Beatrice... Rosalind... Viola... Portia. They were feminists long before there was ever a woman's movement. But Shakespeare, in real life, had two daughters that he never educated. They didn't even know how to write their own names." Melina shook her head. "I just can't believe a man who created such iconic women in his plays wouldn't want his daughters to have the same rights.

The elliptical mode in her poetry recalls late Shakespeare but is more extreme. A daemonic drive to negate precursors while maintaining their standards of excellence distinguishes her from some recent poetical ideologues of the feminist persuasion, whether in verse or prose. They claim Dickinson as ancestor, yet they do her wrong, she being so majestical, to offer her the show of violence.

[Elisabeth Woodville] doesn't take up arms to get her own way. But she is just as resolute as either Joan [of Arc] or Magaret [D'Anjou] about getting what she wants. What does she use instead? She uses sexuality. You may ask, what is wrong with that? Women have been using their sexuality to get what they want from time immemorial (...). And if there is no other way to exert power, then to use your will to procure your will is probably a good idea. However, if what you are implicitly promising (...) is not actually what you want to do, and in order to deliver you must separate yourself from yourself, then it does have its shortcomings as a negotiating tool. You pay a price; you separate yourself from your body. I say this from a woman's point of view. (...) And, as some of my young feminist friends have pointed out, you cannot change a corrupt system by using its own tools

I wondered if the two mysteries—how Shakespeare wrote the works and why he wrote feminist drama—might share the same answer: that the author was not an uneducated man but an educated woman, concealing herself beneath a male name, as the heroines of the plays so often disguise themselves in masculine garb. Literary history is strewn with women whose authorship was hidden, even into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans); Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë); George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin); Jane Austen, whose name appeared only after her death.

These marks represent one of the 4000-odd cases where, according to physicist/UFOlogist Stanton Freedman, we find “hard evidence” at an alleged UFO sighting. The reason that UFO deniers insist “no hard evidence” ever appears seems on all fours with the reason that Radical Feminists fail to see any artistic or scientific merit in DWEMs like Beethoven, Shakespeare, Newton and the other good ole boys. As Korzybski and de Bono (among others) have demonstrated, Opinions result from perceptions, and perceptions reinforce Opinions, which then further control perceptions, in a repeating loop that logic can never penetrate.  (Only shocking new perception, too strong to get edited out by Opinion, can break this self-hypnotic loop.)

These marks represent one of the 4000-odd cases where, according to physicist/UFOlogist Stanton Freedman, we find “hard evidence” at an alleged UFO sighting. The reason that UFO deniers insist “no hard evidence” ever appears seems on all fours with the reason that Radical Feminists fail to see any artistic or scientific merit in DWEMs like Beethoven, Shakespeare, Newton and the other good ole boys. As Korzybski and de Bono (among others) have demonstrated, Opinions result from perceptions, and perceptions reinforce Opinions, which then further control perceptions, in a repeating loop that logic can never penetrate.  (Only shocking new perception, too strong to

The Cambridge scholar Juliet Dusinberre argued that Shakespeare's drama "deserves the name feminist," for in his plays, "The struggle for women is to be human in a world which declares them only female

KLEOPATRA Yere batsın o Roma, bizi çekiştiren dilleri kopsun! Bu savaşta benim de göreceğim işler var, Devletimin başı olarak bir erkeğim ben de burda. Karşı durma bana; ben gerilerde duramam.