#feminism

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty

Women are mere “beauties” in men’s culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#lean-in #beauty

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden. ↗

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

#womanhood #business

Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me.how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think yo do. It's so easy to make yo'self out God Almighty when you ain't got nothin' tuh strain against but women and chickens. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#women #business

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#womens-rights #life

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#feminism #radicals #women #age

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #karrin-murphy #change

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego. ↗

— Janis Birkeland

#change

It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#change