Feminist Quotes
She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.
Knowing that something is wrong without actively trying to fix it is worse than ignorant neutrality.
& besides, I don’tdesign my smiles to be nets because I’m not fishing
If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.
Whoever said dogs can't speak was never interested in learning another language.
To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.
Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.
Even as zombies, ridiculous prom gowns were the downfall of teenage girls, crippling them at the knees.
I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties.
You think you’re defending my ‘honor, ’ but you’re just as bad as he is.
And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life
Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.
I like to see you in a sari, with your long hair dressed in a single plait. Don't forget that I married a girl from India because I like my wife to be conservative and feminine.
Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too.
Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.
Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.
This book is written in blood.Is it written entirely in blood?No, some of it is written in tears. Are the blood and tears all mine?Yes, they have been in the past, but the future is a different ma
Let us remind our poor men folk in deed and song:There are two types of men in this womanly world:Those who know they are weak.Those who think they are strong.
No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?
I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.
I rarely meet men in real life as extraordinary as ones on film, and rarely see women on film as extraordinary as ones I know in real life
Do you have the tubes to ask me out or not?
If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal.
You are not only fighting for your own rights, you are also fighting for the rights of the next generations of women.Your strength today will determine their fate tomorrow.
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up
He doesn't need to tend her, because she hunts her own prey. He doesn't need to shield her, because she kills her own enemies. He doesn't need to look for her, because she's always at his side.
We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth. I will honor my mother and take care of my family.Yes, I think. I am just a woman.
All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, " as one feminist explained.
When someone falls, ” Mark said, “you don’t throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It’s the Christian thing to do.
Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?
Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women
...so individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women's appearance are left unscathed
Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de Beauvoir
Could he actually be a decent guy?Hard to imagine.He was pretty to look at, though, she thought. Boys weren't objectified nearly enough, and turnabout is always fair play.
A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.
