Thank Goodness for Women!
“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.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
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— Cheris Kramarae
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
— Roseanne Barr
“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)”
— Madeleine Albright
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
— Margaret Sanger
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
— Margaret Atwood
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
— Brigham Young
“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.”
— Warsan Shire
“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
— Sojourner Truth
“As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
— Björk
“...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood.”
— Susan J Douglas
Source: www.goodreads.com
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