#women

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." (Claiming an Education, 1977) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#empowerment #feminism #independent-thought #responsibility #self-determination

Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier? ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#happier #make #only #sometimes #the only thing

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#airwaves #attempts #because #care #discussions

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television. ↗

— Anna Ford

#plain #television #women

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. ↗

— Cher

#growing-older #men #music #rock-music #women

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#coast guard #commend #first #great #great men

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time. ↗

— Judith Ellen Foster

#country #ever #much #needed #needs

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. ↗

— Charles Fourier

#basic #basic principle #extension #principle #progress

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women. ↗