Feminist Quotes

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Equality, White

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Motivational, Connections

  "The Last Poem I Loved: 'Modotti' by Adrienne Rich" by Laura Goode, therumpus.net. April 02, 2012.

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• I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

  Audre Lorde

  Fearless, Different, Equal Rights

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.132, Crossing Press

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• Well-behaved women seldom make history.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Funny, Strength, Inspiring

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, Vintage

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• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

  Attributed

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Men, Feminism, Oppressed

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Thumbs Up, Proud

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.133, Random House

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• A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Equality, Empowering

  "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

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• There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

  Arundhati Roy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Voiceless

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.330, Penguin Books India

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• Men use the night to erase us.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Night, Men, Use

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• The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Character, Personality, Individuality

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• I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

  Iggy Pop

  Thinking, Dresses, Ashamed

  "Is the word 'girl' offensive?" by Naomi McAuliffe, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2014.

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• If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equal Pay, Reform, Transformation

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• We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sex, Two, Force

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

  Norma McCorvey

  Abortion, Position

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• Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

  Gloria Steinem

  War, Dirty, Army

  Ms., Spring 1972

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• My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, My Mom

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• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

  Bell Hooks

  Goal, Way, Study

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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  IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

  Emma Watson

  Equality, Two, Feminism

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  Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

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• I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

  Robert Mueller

  War, Women, Land

  Quoted in Look, 5 Mar. 1957

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