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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #feminism




When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.


Stevie Nicks


#equality #feminism #gender-norm #inspirational #social-norm

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.


Jessica Valenti


#body-image #feminism #media #beauty

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.


Jim Butcher


#harry-dresden #humor #humor

Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.


Sarah Rees Brennan


#humor #stupidity #humor

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.


Andrea Dworkin


#feminism #freedom #justice #self-respect #women

...it's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor -- biting down on a wooden spoon, so as not to disturb the men's card game -- before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.


Caitlin Moran


#business

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?


William Shakespeare


#feminism #othello #equality

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.


Betty Buckley


#concept #defining #feminism #gave #gift

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.


Betty Buckley


#assumed #critical #done #felt #feminism

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.


Simone de Beauvoir


#feminism #life






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