Feminism Quotes Quotes

“Mothers are our world. Sisters are our sky. Daughters are our stars. Women are our universe.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Women are supposed to be competent at everything, but experts at nothing. Haven't you heard?”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“She was flabbergasted by the backward thinking of humankind. The damaging double standards that fueled gender disparity infuriated her.”
― Wiss Auguste, The Illusions of Hope

“others take me more seriously, because I am with such a successful person—because that means that I, too, must be successful if this successful person has me in his life. It
doesn’t matter that I have been educating myself for 15 years and that I am actually successful in my own right. I must be a bit successful to be in this position. But every
successful career woman knows that she has had to work
like a horse for her success, a lot more than men who have reached the same position. And it is very hard to accept that in our time people first and foremost rank you on the scale of success with regards to the success of your partner.”
― Rose S. White, You - The World of Thoughts Matters

“You shouldn’t get a cookie for telling people not to sexually assault other people. And, yet, here we are.”
― Amy Remeikis, On Reckoning

“But this is not a ‘women’s issue’ and it is not for women to solve.”
― Amy Remeikis, On Reckoning

“None of us are equal until all of us are.”
― Amy Remeikis, On Reckoning

“Anger can be destructive, but it can also be transformative.”
― Amy Remeikis, On Reckoning

“Our history is stained with injustices and rage that took too long to be acknowledged.”
― Amy Remeikis, On Reckoning

“I believe this “perfect or bust” mentality is a big part of why women are underrepresented in C-suites, in boardrooms, in Congress, and pretty much everywhere you look.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“There’s a running theme in movies and on television about the nerdy guy who gets rejected and goes on to become Mark Zuckerberg, but there’s no similar narrative for girls.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“What if, instead of feeling intimidated by an assertive woman and bitching about her behind her back, we talked about how we admire her instead?”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“Generosity and bravery are intertwined – especially when it comes to women supporting other women.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“Yet this is an illusion that assumes we have power over how other people view and respond to us.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“It takes one person to make change happen.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“There are so many African women who are sources of feminist inspiration. Because of what they have done and because of what they have refused to do.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“She can counter ideas about static ‘gender roles’ if she has been empowered by her familiarity with alternatives.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“Feminism saved my mind.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“I will forever be the enemy of patriarchy, whichever language it speaks or God it worships.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“I would accept nothing less than substantive, transformative and unconditional equality, for myself and for others.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“Le mot « déconstruction » peut faire peur car il suggère de démanteler quelque chose de solide, comme une identité ou des habitudes profondément ancrées. Mais ce processus n’est pas synonyme de perte : c’est une opportunité de reconstruire des relations plus juste et authentiques, tant avec soi-même qu’avec les autres.”
― Lauraine Meyer, Mecs in Progress

“Just why, Maria Eugenia, must you always mix holy things, godly things, with your nonsense?
This is the second time now that you’ve said that foolishness about how you'll be applying lipstick on Judgment Day!”
― Teresa de la Parra, Iphigenia - Teresa de la Parra

“If we hadn’t silenced women and asked them to leave the altar from the start, I wonder what the world would be like now. And I wonder how girls and women would be treated if we would have been able, all along, to hear who Christ was, who Christ is according to women, to mothers, to daughters, to the souls in a human body that can actually create life inside them.”
― Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

“Men universally forbid abortion; but they accept it individually as a
convenient solution; they can contradict themselves with dizzying
cynicism; but woman feels the contradictions in her wounded flesh;”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Indeed the word masculine is only a bugbear: there is little reason to fear that women will acquire too much courage or fortitude; for their apparent inferiority with respect to bodily strength, must render them, in some degree, dependent on men in the various relations of life; but why should it be increased by prejudices that give a sex to virtue, and confound simple truths with sensual reveries?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Rousseau bemödar sig om att bevisa att allting från början var rätt, några författare menar att allting numera är rätt, medan jag hoppas att allting kommer att bli rätt.” (s. 43)”
― Ingrid Ingemark, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The cage changes shape with every generation, but its shadow never leaves - a woman may stretch her hands through it, yet never fully step beyond.”
― Anurag, Shrivastava, Shakti: The Etenal Flame

“The cage changes shape with every generation, but its shadow never leaves - a woman may stretch her hands through it, yet never fully step beyond.”
― Anurag Shrivastava, Shakti: The Eternal Flame