5 Quotes by Deborah Frances-White

Feminism has always been a request, or demand, for inclusion.Inclusion is the watchword of the second decade of the 21st century and in recent waves of feminism, but its nothing new.

Including each other is the basis of our survival. The cost of complete exclusion is our mental health. Inclusion is vital to humanity. So the question can only ever be: who is included and why? Women have been routinely excluded in places of power and influence. Socially they've been included tentatively and conditonally.

First-wave feminism includes the terrifyingly brave suffragettes, who chained themselves to railings, blew up buildings, set fire to landmarks, and were force-fed horribly in prison, all so we could have the right to vote for Donald Trump and Brexit. I'm glad they're dead and don't know this.

The further away you are from being a white man, the less you are seen by society as being a neutral ‘person’. That’s pretty devastating, isn’t it?

Much of confidence is recognising times when there is nothing truly at stake and that failure can be seen as ‘gathering data’ rather than evidence that we as individuals are ‘no good’ at something.