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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #3
    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    Cheris Kramarae

  • #4
    Ann Richards
    “After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
    Ann Richards

  • #5
    Jessica Valenti
    “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.”
    Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

  • #6
    Gloria Steinem
    “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
    Freidrich Neitzsche

  • #8
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  • #9
    Audre Lorde
    “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
    audre lorde

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"

    [To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Sena Jeter Naslund
    “If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”
    Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

  • #13
    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
    Margaret Sanger

  • #14
    Moderata Fonte
    “Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
    Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

  • #15
    Wilkie Collins
    “Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #16
    Saddam Hussein
    “Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.”
    Saddam Hussein, The Revolution and Woman in Iraq

  • #17
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

  • #18
    Gloria Steinem
    “Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #19
    Charlotte Brontë
    “If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

  • #20
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • #21
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #22
    Molly Ivins
    “Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.”
    Molly Ivins, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #24
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  • #25
    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
    Margaret Sanger

  • #26
    Michelle Obama
    “Women endure entire lifetimes of these indignities—in the form of catcalls, groping, assault, oppression. These things injure us. They sap our strength. Some of the cuts are so small they’re barely visible. Others are huge and gaping, leaving scars that never heal. Either way, they accumulate. We carry them everywhere, to and from school and work, at home while raising our children, at our places of worship, anytime we try to advance.”
    Michelle Obama, Becoming

  • #27
    Vera Nazarian
    “A woman is human.

    She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.

    Likewise, she is never less.

    Equality is a given.

    A woman is human.”
    Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

  • #28
    Socrates
    “Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
    Socrates

  • #29
    Audre Lorde
    “Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #30
    Caitlin Moran
    “These days, however, I am much calmer - since I realised that it’s technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn’t be allowed to have a debate on women’s place in society. You’d be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor - biting down on a wooden spoon, so as not to disturb the men’s card game - before going back to quick-liming the dunny. This is why those female columnists in the Daily Mail - giving daily wail against feminism - amuse me. They paid you £1,600 for that, dear, I think. And I bet it’s going in your bank account, and not your husband’s. The more women argue loudly, against feminism, the more they both prove it exists and that they enjoy its hard-won privileges.”
    Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman



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