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“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

― Brigham Young

tags:education, feminism, men, women

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“When a man gives his opinion, hes a man. When a woman gives her opinion, shes a bitch.”

― Bette Davis

tags:clichés, double-standards,empowerment, feminism,gender,hypocrisy, misogyny,opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes,

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“! hate to hear you ta"# about a"" women as i$ they were $ine "adies instead o$ rationa" creatures. %one

o$ us want to be in ca"m waters a"" our "ives.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags:clichés, double-standards,empowerment, equality, feminism,flattery, gender, hypocrisy,independence, men, misogyn

y, rationality, reason, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes,strength,women,women-s-rights

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“!m tough, !m ambitious, and ! #now e&act"y what ! want. !$ that ma#es me a bitch, o#ay.”

― Madonna

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tags:feminism, humor, women

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“A woman without a man is "i#e a $ish without a bicyc"e.”

― Gloria Steinem

tags:feminism, humour

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“! myse"$ have never been ab"e to $ind out precise"y what $eminism is' ! on"y #now that peop"e ca"" me

a $eminist whenever ! e&press sentiments that di$$erentiate me $rom a doormat.”

― Rebecca West

tags:feminism, qotd

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“Why do peop"e say (grow some ba""s() *a""s are wea# and sensitive. !$ you wanna be tough, grow a

 vagina. +hose things can ta#e a pounding.”

― Sheng Wang

tags:feminism, humor, misattributed-betty-white

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“Feminism is the radica" notion that women are human beings.”

― Cheris Kramarae

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“! hate men who are a$raid o$ womens strength.”

― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs

Nin

tags:empowerment, feminism,woman,women-s-strenth

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“! am too inte""igent, too demanding, and too resource$u" $or anyone to be ab"e to ta#e charge o$ me

entire"y. %o one #nows me or "oves me comp"ete"y. ! have on"y myse"$”

― Simone de Beauvoir

tags:feminism

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“!dea""y, what shou"d be said to every chi"d, repeated"y, throughout his or her schoo" "i$e is something

"i#e this' You are in the process o$ being indoctrinated. We have not yet evo"ved a system o$

education that is not a system o$ indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you

are being taught here is an ama"gam o$ current preudice and the choices o$ this particu"ar cu"ture.

+he s"ightest "oo# at history wi"" show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by

peop"e who have been ab"e to accommodate themse"ves to a regime o$ thought "aid down by their

predecessors. !t is a se"$-perpetuating system. +hose o$ you who are more robust and individua" than

others wi"" be encouraged to "eave and $ind ways o$ educating yourse"$ educating your own

 udgements. +hose that stay must remember, a"ways, and a"" the time, that they are being mou"ded

and patterned to $it into the narrow and particu"ar needs o$ this particu"ar society.”

― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags:conformity, education, feminism,knowledge-power,quip, school

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“%o woman gets an orgasm $rom shining the #itchen $"oor. ”

― Betty Friedan

tags:feminism, housekeeping,orgasm,sex, sexuality, women

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“+he thing women have yet to "earn is nobody gives you power. You ust ta#e it. ”

― Roseanne Barr

tags:feminism, power, women

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“/en are $rom 0arth, women are $rom 0arth. 1ea" with it.”

― George Carlin

tags:common-sense, equality,feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women

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“! #now enough to #now that no woman shou"d ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

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“A $eminist is anyone who recogni2es the e3ua"ity and $u"" humanity o$ women and men.”

― Gloria Steinem

tags:equality,feminism, humanity, men,women

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“What4s the worst possib"e thing you can ca"" a woman) 1on4t ho"d bac#, now.

 You4re probab"y thin#ing o$ words "i#e s"ut, whore, bitch, cunt 5! to"d you not to ho"d bac#67, s#an#.

8#ay, now, what are the worst things you can ca"" a guy) Fag, gir", bitch, pussy. !4ve even heard the

term “mangina.”

%otice anything) +he worst thing you can ca"" a gir" is a gir". +he worst thing you can ca"" a guy is a

gir". *eing a woman is the u"timate insu"t. %ow te"" me that4s not roya""y $uc#ed up.”

― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

tags:double-standards, eye-opening, feminism,gender-inequality, insults, men, names, sexism, woman,womanhood, wome

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“!$ particu"ar care and attention is not paid to the "adies, we are determined to $oment a rebe""ion,

and wi"" not ho"d ourse"ves bound by any "aws in which we have no voice or representation.”

― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adamstags:feminism

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“/en are a$raid that women wi"" "augh at them. Women are a$raid that men wi"" #i"" them.”

― Margaret Atwood

tags:apocryphal, feminism

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“9e - and i$ there is a :od, ! am convinced he is a he, because no woman cou"d or wou"d ever $uc#

things up this bad"y.”― George Carlin

tags:equality,feminism, feminist, george-carlin, god, men-and-women,religion

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“As "ong as she thin#s o$ a man, nobody obects to a woman thin#ing.”― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags:clichés, dignity,double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men,misogyny, self-

determination, social-norms,stereotypes, thought, women

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“+here is a specia" p"ace in he"" $or women who dont he"p other women.(

5eynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration "uncheon with the W%*As A""-1ecade +eam, <==>7”

― Madeleine Albright

tags:feminism, power, sisterhood,women

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“!ts not my responsibi"ity to be beauti$u". !m not a"ive $or that purpose. /y e&istence is not about

how desirab"e you $ind me.”

― Warsan Shire

tags:beautiful,existence, feminism, self-esteem

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“?esponsibi"ity to yourse"$ means re$using to "et others do your thin#ing, ta"#ing, and naming $or

 you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase super$icia"

intimacy or economic security; $or our bodies to be treated as obects, our minds are in morta"

danger. !t means insisting that those to whom you give your $riendship and "ove are ab"e to respect

 your mind. !t means being ab"e to say, with @har"otte *rontes ane 0yre' (! have an inward treasure

 born with me, which can #eep me a"ive i$ a"" the e&traneous de"ights shou"d be withhe"d or o$$ered

on"y at a price ! cannot a$$ord to give.

?esponsibi"ity to yourse"$ means that you dont $a"" $or sha""ow and easy so"utions--predigested boo#s and ideas...marrying ear"y as an escape $rom rea" decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion o$

a"ready e&isting prob"ems. !t means that you re$use to se"" your ta"ents and aspirations short...and

this, in turn, means resisting the $orces in society which say that women shou"d be nice, p"ay sa$e,

have "ow pro$essiona" e&pectations, drown in "ove and $orget about wor#, "ive through others, and

stay in the p"aces assigned to us. !t means that we insist on a "i$e o$ meaning$u" wor#, insist that wor# 

 be as meaning$u" as "ove and $riendship in our "ives. !t means, there$ore, the courage to be

(di$$erent(...+he di$$erence between a "i$e "ived active"y, and a "i$e o$ passive dri$ting and dispersa" o$

energies, is an immense di$$erence. 8nce we begin to $ee" committed to our "ives, responsib"e to

ourse"ves, we can never again be satis$ied with the o"d, passive way.”

― Adrienne Richtags:feminism, inspirational

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“03ua"ity is not a concept. !ts not something we shou"d be striving $or. !ts a necessity. 03ua"ity is

"i#e gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in everycu"ture is not a true part o$ the human condition. !t is "i$e out o$ ba"ance, and that imba"ance is

suc#ing something out o$ the sou" o$ every man and woman whos con$ronted with it. We need

e3ua"ity. inda now.”

― Joss Whedon

tags:equality,fairness, feminism,freedom-of-choice, inspirational, truth

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“Bhe ta"#s "i#e you. !t4s not every day you hear a $our-year-o"d say Crince @harming is a douchebag

 who4s on"y ho"ding @indere""a bac#.”

(+hat4s my gir".”

― Emma Chase,Tangled

tags:cinderella,fairy-tales, feminism,humor

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“+o terri$y chi"dren with the image o$ he"", to consider women an in$erior creationis that good $or

the wor"d)”

― Christopher Hitchens

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en-and-religion

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“9e is a gent"eman, and ! am a gent"emans daughter. Bo $ar we are e3ua".”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags:feminism

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“Women have served a"" these centuries as "oo#ing g"asses possessing the magic and de"icious power

o$ re$"ecting the $igure o$ man at twice its natura" si2e.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

tags:arrogance,empowerment, feminism, gender,hypocrisy, inequality,men, self-importance, women

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“Wherever you $ind a great man, you wi"" $ind a great mother or a great wi$e standing behind him --

or so they used to say. !t wou"d be interesting to #now how many great women have had great $athers

and husbands behind them.”

― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night