Kelsey Claesson

“We make [girls] feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity.”
― Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

“We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them . But the reverse is not the same.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“No matter who you are, if in your mind you are born a girl, you will grow to be a women through experience. It is not a biological process, it is not losing your virgnity, it is not giving birth or raising children, nor is it a thing that can be calculated or defined: it is a staggeringly ineffable, gorgeous uphill battle from chaos towards a chosen selfhood of contentment, self-belief, self-love, and empowerment.”
― Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them