Kelsey Claesson

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“[He] looked at me and said, "You know, you're a feminist."

It was note compliment. I could tell from his tone - the same tone with which a person would say, "You're a supporter of terrorism.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“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