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    “Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”
    ― Carter Heyward, Saving Jesus From Those Who Are Right
    tags: critical, political, social-ustice
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    Fatema Mernissi
    “Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.”
    ― Fatima Mernissi
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    “We must pay attention to gender, but it is difficult to pay attention to gender all by itself…It emerges differently in women’s lives because it hooks onto other markers such as race, class, sexual orientation and age.”
    ― Sari Knopp Biklen, School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching
    tags: gender, intersectionality, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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  • #5
    “Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.”
    ― Gayle Letherby , Feminist Research in Theory and Practice
    tags: academic-writing, constructing-knowledge, first-person, knowledge, writing
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  • #6
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
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  • #7
    “Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.”
    ― Paul McCartney
    tags: buy, consumerism, shopping, sustainability, trash
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    bell hooks
    “I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks”
    ― bh
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  • #9
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: critical-pedagogy, education, thinking
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  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized”
    ― Nietzsche
    tags: critical-thinking, criticism, epistemology, truth
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    Derrick Jensen
    “Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance”
    ― Derrick Jensen
    tags: capitalist, consumer, environment, political, resistance
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  • #13
    John Keats
    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: environment, nature, poetry
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  • #14
    Derrick Jensen
    “Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.”
    ― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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  • #15
    “school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice”
    ― Oakes Jeannie
    tags: education, pedagogy, social-justice, teachers
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    “Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Consequently, their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates, policies, and legislative practices that are constructed in terms of their needs.”
    ― Henry A. Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy
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  • #17
    bell hooks
    “No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough”
    ― Bell Hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
    tags: black-women-writers, women-writers, writing
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    Kat Banyard
    “...so individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women's appearance are left unscathed”
    ― Kat Banyard
    tags: beauty, cosmetic-surgery, critical, empowering, feminist
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    Amelia Earhart
    “One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.”
    ― Amelia Earhart
    tags: girls
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    Andrew Lang
    “Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.”
    ― Andrew Lang, The Red Fairy Book
    tags: dream, fairy-tales, happiness, inspirational, madness, wisdom
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    bell hooks
    “Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and practice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.”
    ― bell hooks
    tags: love, men, patriarchy, relationships, women
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  • #22
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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  • #27
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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  • #28
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “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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  • #30
    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
    3546 likes



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