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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #feminism




There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.


Terry Tempest Williams


#inspirational #women #inspirational

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.


Hedy Lamarr


#hedy-lamarr #intelligence #woman #intelligence

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive


Mary Pipher


#inspirational-quotes #self-image #inspirational

When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking.


Hélène Cixous


#helen-cixous #inspirational #life #love #writing

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of ... it's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really mess up your life. [Author Hilary Mantel on being asked about being a writer with endometriosis, Nov 2012 NPR interview]


Hilary Mantel


#chronic-pain #endometriosis #feminism #feminist #healthcare

Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off my 5'3" frame. Losing 14 pounds out of necessity in order to live a healthier life is a huge victory. I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot.


Scarlett Johansson


#feminism #feminist #johansson #scarlett-johansson #sexism

Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people's babies.


Sonya Renee Taylor


#men #politics #rapists #rights #war

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.


Bell Hooks


#love #self-love #women-s-strength #love

The demand to be intimate or honest with a public can be invasive when the experiences of racial others are commodified as stories or objects that might be traded as evidence of intimacy, as proof of 'being good,' for nonracial others. In this way, intimacy might act as surveillance, through which some people--women of color, for instance--must reveal themselves to bear the burden of representation ('You are here as an example') and the weight of pedagogy ('Teach us about your people'). Intimacy can be a force--especially when others set its terms and conditions. So what if you don't love the (white) girls who exhaust you, who want too much from you, who want to turn you into a commodity or a badge or an experience to share? What if you become a girl in opposition to other girls? This is also the problem with definitions of racism as ignorance, and ignorance as the absence of intimacy--which posits that intimacy is the solution to ignorance. This gives us terrible, stupid disavowals like 'I'm not racist, I have black friends,' as if intimacy is a shield that protects the wearer from harm. It limits our sense of what racism is to the scale of the interpersonal, when it is in fact this enormous constellation of forces and moving parts that structures our institutions--and so-called institutions--profoundly.


Mimi Thi Nguyen


#ignorance #intimacy #race #racism #experience






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