899 Quotes About Feminist

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

I will not be broken or diminished or belittled by the choices of men around me.

It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are…of being alive. Scared of things that are amazing. Scared of things that aren’t like television or aren’t dead. A lot of people can’t deal with three-dimensional human beings, they only know how to deal with other products — they see themselves as other products. When the world only treats you like a dot on a marketing scheme, you can learn to treat yourself and other people like that.

الركض حالة أعيشها دائما. في طفولتي كانت طاقة الحياة فيّ تلح وتفيض فأركض. وفي مراهقتي ركضت خوفا من جسدي النامي ومن الحراملك المنتظر. ثم بقيت أركض لكي لا أفقد نديتي للرجال من أبناء جيلي، أركض لكي أتعلم، أركض لكي أستقل، وأركض لكي لا يعيدني أهلي لحظيرة حبهم ووصايتهم، وأركض لكي لا يزج المجتمع بي في خانة الدونية المعدة سلفا للنساء.

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?''Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.''A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.

Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.

Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better than their dead husbands. Y.pestis [black death germ] turns out to have been something of a feminist.

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.