Jennifer Baumgardner Quotes

#1. The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

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#2. The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life - and we are also mothers and daughters and hot and neurotic and existing on wine and coffee and disappointed and brave.

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#3. As we said, consciousness is everything. Even now, acknowledging inequality begs one to do something about it--and that is a daunting, albeit righteous, responsibility.

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#4. At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice.

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#5. Bisexual people are the primary conduits for the cultural conversation that America is having about gay rights.

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#6. As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.

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#7. To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something crucial in these relationships.

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#8. Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

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