Maria

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Maria.


Loading...
Warsan Shire
“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
Warsan Shire

Naomi Wolf
“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

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

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

year in books
Joana L...
133 books | 13 friends

Ana
Ana
147 books | 45 friends

José
1,128 books | 34 friends

Daniel ...
1 book | 5 friends

Pedro Sena
115 books | 44 friends

Diogo
226 books | 34 friends

Kelsey
1,102 books | 22 friends

Afonso ...
26 books | 11 friends

More friends…
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Women & Gender Studies
1,482 books — 563 voters


Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Maria

Lists liked by Maria