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“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young
tags:education, feminism, men, women
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“When a man gives his opinion, hes a man. When a woman gives her opinion, shes a bitch.”
― Bette Davis
tags:clichés, double-standards,empowerment, feminism,gender,hypocrisy, misogyny,opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes,
women
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“! hate to hear you ta"# about a"" women as i$ they were $ine "adies instead o$ rationa" creatures. %one
o$ us want to be in ca"m waters a"" our "ives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
tags:clichés, double-standards,empowerment, equality, feminism,flattery, gender, hypocrisy,independence, men, misogyn
y, rationality, reason, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes,strength,women,women-s-rights
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“!m tough, !m ambitious, and ! #now e&act"y what ! want. !$ that ma#es me a bitch, o#ay.”
― Madonna
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tags:feminism, humor, women
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“A woman without a man is "i#e a $ish without a bicyc"e.”
― Gloria Steinem
tags:feminism, humour
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“! myse"$ have never been ab"e to $ind out precise"y what $eminism is' ! on"y #now that peop"e ca"" me
a $eminist whenever ! e&press sentiments that di$$erentiate me $rom a doormat.”
― Rebecca West
tags:feminism, qotd
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“Why do peop"e say (grow some ba""s() *a""s are wea# and sensitive. !$ you wanna be tough, grow a
vagina. +hose things can ta#e a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang
tags:feminism, humor, misattributed-betty-white
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“Feminism is the radica" notion that women are human beings.”
― Cheris Kramarae
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tags:feminism, women
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“! hate men who are a$raid o$ womens strength.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs
Nin
tags:empowerment, feminism,woman,women-s-strenth
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“! am too inte""igent, too demanding, and too resource$u" $or anyone to be ab"e to ta#e charge o$ me
entire"y. %o one #nows me or "oves me comp"ete"y. ! have on"y myse"$”
― Simone de Beauvoir
tags:feminism
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“!dea""y, what shou"d be said to every chi"d, repeated"y, throughout his or her schoo" "i$e is something
"i#e this' You are in the process o$ being indoctrinated. We have not yet evo"ved a system o$
education that is not a system o$ indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you
are being taught here is an ama"gam o$ current preudice and the choices o$ this particu"ar cu"ture.
+he s"ightest "oo# at history wi"" show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by
peop"e who have been ab"e to accommodate themse"ves to a regime o$ thought "aid down by their
predecessors. !t is a se"$-perpetuating system. +hose o$ you who are more robust and individua" than
others wi"" be encouraged to "eave and $ind ways o$ educating yourse"$ educating your own
udgements. +hose that stay must remember, a"ways, and a"" the time, that they are being mou"ded
and patterned to $it into the narrow and particu"ar needs o$ this particu"ar society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
tags:conformity, education, feminism,knowledge-power,quip, school
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“%o woman gets an orgasm $rom shining the #itchen $"oor. ”
― Betty Friedan
tags:feminism, housekeeping,orgasm,sex, sexuality, women
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“+he thing women have yet to "earn is nobody gives you power. You ust ta#e it. ”
― Roseanne Barr
tags:feminism, power, women
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“/en are $rom 0arth, women are $rom 0arth. 1ea" with it.”
― George Carlin
tags:common-sense, equality,feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women
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“! #now enough to #now that no woman shou"d ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
tags:ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony,men, mothers, psychology,relationships, so
ns,women
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“A $eminist is anyone who recogni2es the e3ua"ity and $u"" humanity o$ women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem
tags:equality,feminism, humanity, men,women
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“What4s the worst possib"e thing you can ca"" a woman) 1on4t ho"d bac#, now.
You4re probab"y thin#ing o$ words "i#e s"ut, whore, bitch, cunt 5! to"d you not to ho"d bac#67, s#an#.
8#ay, now, what are the worst things you can ca"" a guy) Fag, gir", bitch, pussy. !4ve even heard the
term “mangina.”
%otice anything) +he worst thing you can ca"" a gir" is a gir". +he worst thing you can ca"" a guy is a
gir". *eing a woman is the u"timate insu"t. %ow te"" me that4s not roya""y $uc#ed up.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
tags:double-standards, eye-opening, feminism,gender-inequality, insults, men, names, sexism, woman,womanhood, wome
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“!$ particu"ar care and attention is not paid to the "adies, we are determined to $oment a rebe""ion,
and wi"" not ho"d ourse"ves bound by any "aws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adamstags:feminism
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“/en are a$raid that women wi"" "augh at them. Women are a$raid that men wi"" #i"" them.”
― Margaret Atwood
tags:apocryphal, feminism
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“9e - and i$ there is a :od, ! am convinced he is a he, because no woman cou"d or wou"d ever $uc#
things up this bad"y.”― George Carlin
tags:equality,feminism, feminist, george-carlin, god, men-and-women,religion
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“As "ong as she thin#s o$ a man, nobody obects to a woman thin#ing.”― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
tags:clichés, dignity,double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men,misogyny, self-
determination, social-norms,stereotypes, thought, women
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“+here is a specia" p"ace in he"" $or women who dont he"p other women.(
5eynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration "uncheon with the W%*As A""-1ecade +eam, <==>7”
― Madeleine Albright
tags:feminism, power, sisterhood,women
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“!ts not my responsibi"ity to be beauti$u". !m not a"ive $or that purpose. /y e&istence is not about
how desirab"e you $ind me.”
― Warsan Shire
tags:beautiful,existence, feminism, self-esteem
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“?esponsibi"ity to yourse"$ means re$using to "et others do your thin#ing, ta"#ing, and naming $or
you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase super$icia"
intimacy or economic security; $or our bodies to be treated as obects, our minds are in morta"
danger. !t means insisting that those to whom you give your $riendship and "ove are ab"e to respect
your mind. !t means being ab"e to say, with @har"otte *rontes ane 0yre' (! have an inward treasure
born with me, which can #eep me a"ive i$ a"" the e&traneous de"ights shou"d be withhe"d or o$$ered
on"y at a price ! cannot a$$ord to give.
?esponsibi"ity to yourse"$ means that you dont $a"" $or sha""ow and easy so"utions--predigested boo#s and ideas...marrying ear"y as an escape $rom rea" decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion o$
a"ready e&isting prob"ems. !t means that you re$use to se"" your ta"ents and aspirations short...and
this, in turn, means resisting the $orces in society which say that women shou"d be nice, p"ay sa$e,
have "ow pro$essiona" e&pectations, drown in "ove and $orget about wor#, "ive through others, and
stay in the p"aces assigned to us. !t means that we insist on a "i$e o$ meaning$u" wor#, insist that wor#
be as meaning$u" as "ove and $riendship in our "ives. !t means, there$ore, the courage to be
(di$$erent(...+he di$$erence between a "i$e "ived active"y, and a "i$e o$ passive dri$ting and dispersa" o$
energies, is an immense di$$erence. 8nce we begin to $ee" committed to our "ives, responsib"e to
ourse"ves, we can never again be satis$ied with the o"d, passive way.”
― Adrienne Richtags:feminism, inspirational
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“03ua"ity is not a concept. !ts not something we shou"d be striving $or. !ts a necessity. 03ua"ity is
"i#e gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in everycu"ture is not a true part o$ the human condition. !t is "i$e out o$ ba"ance, and that imba"ance is
suc#ing something out o$ the sou" o$ every man and woman whos con$ronted with it. We need
e3ua"ity. inda now.”
― Joss Whedon
tags:equality,fairness, feminism,freedom-of-choice, inspirational, truth
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“Bhe ta"#s "i#e you. !t4s not every day you hear a $our-year-o"d say Crince @harming is a douchebag
who4s on"y ho"ding @indere""a bac#.”
(+hat4s my gir".”
― Emma Chase,Tangled
tags:cinderella,fairy-tales, feminism,humor
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“+o terri$y chi"dren with the image o$ he"", to consider women an in$erior creationis that good $or
the wor"d)”
― Christopher Hitchens
tags:atheism, child-abuse, children,feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children,rhetorical-questions,sexism, women, wom
en-and-religion
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“9e is a gent"eman, and ! am a gent"emans daughter. Bo $ar we are e3ua".”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
tags:feminism
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“Women have served a"" these centuries as "oo#ing g"asses possessing the magic and de"icious power
o$ re$"ecting the $igure o$ man at twice its natura" si2e.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
tags:arrogance,empowerment, feminism, gender,hypocrisy, inequality,men, self-importance, women
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“Wherever you $ind a great man, you wi"" $ind a great mother or a great wi$e standing behind him --
or so they used to say. !t wou"d be interesting to #now how many great women have had great $athers
and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night