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These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#feminism #inspirational #inspirational

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#inspirational #inspirational

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl. ↗

— Nellie L. McClung

#inspirational #inspirational

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government! ↗

— Golda Meir

#humor #inspirational #political #humor

The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are. ↗

— Ally Condie

#earth #inspirational #small #world #inspirational

Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses ↗

— Matthew Goldfinger

#inspirational #optimism #inspirational

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #inspiration #inspirational #lovingkindness #meditation

I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world... I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom... ...and I've decided you're a pillock. ↗

— Roger Kettle

#sarcasm #wisdom #inspirational

College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere between all that fear and dread, I'd realized that was the wrong reason to go to college. That the potential for those things had been inside of me all along, only I'd never realized because I hadn't believed myself strong enough to break free without an intermediary. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#feminism #freedom #inspirational #philosophy #freedom

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run ↗

— Channing Pollock

#critic #criticism #inspirational #writer #writers-quotes