Feminism Quotes
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![Jane Austen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
![Rebecca West](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1392646885i/8111._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
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![Simone de Beauvoir](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1555042345i/5548._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
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![Sheng Wang](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1376842453i/7009636._UY200_CR9,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
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![Anaïs Nin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1585811222i/7190._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
― Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
― Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
![Doris Lessing](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1457477725i/7728._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
![Warsan Shire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1358876300i/5431334._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
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![Martha Gellhorn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1332769689i/162626._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Selected Letters
― Selected Letters
![Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1628721308i/19992417._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
![Jessica Valenti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1447700019i/222118._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.
You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”
Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.”
― Full Frontal Feminism
You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”
Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.”
― Full Frontal Feminism
![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
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![George Carlin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1664917557i/22782._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”
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![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
![Madeleine K. Albright](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209499905i/63111._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
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(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
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![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
![Abigail Adams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1376974327i/1479._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
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![Bonnie Burstow](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1634173906i/2043069._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
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