Anna Patrick's Blog, page 89
March 8, 2017
Empowering feminist quotes for the signs
In honor of International Women’s Day.
*If any of the people featured in this post are/were decidedly shitty (racist, TERF, etc.) please let me know so that I may replace the quote.*
Aries:
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” —Maya Angelou
Taurus:
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.” ―Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gemini: “I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.” —Meryl Streep
Cancer: “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Leo: “There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.” —Rihanna
Virgo: “As soon as a woman gets to an age where she has opinions and she’s vital and she’s strong, she’s systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.” —Sarah Silverman
Libra: “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
—G.D. Anderson
Scorpio: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” —Audre Lorde
Sagittarius: “Women will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names…It was woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was woman that gave you Malcolm X. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. Don’t you ever forget it.” —Janelle Monáe
Capricorn: “Women are the real architects of society.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
Aquarius: “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” ―Malala Yousafzai
Pisces: “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are.”
―Emma Watson
Couldn’t agree more with my sign, Libra!
"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
- Jack Kornfield
Feeling the love today. We’re a force, sister witches.
Feeling the love today. We’re a force, sister witches.
"I thank my body
for the space
of solace
of stretch marks -
for the areas of growth
of forgiving
of..."
for the space
of solace
of stretch marks -
for the areas of growth
of forgiving
of loving the unloved.
I thank my body
for carrying all the gaps
the senses
the heavy
the apologies
that finally saw light.”
- (N.J.) // the intimate (via thatkindofwoman)
March 3, 2017
I think this about my boyfriend every time I’m home alone.
I think this about my boyfriend every time I’m home alone.
"You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said..."
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via thatkindofwoman)
March 2, 2017
"We all have souls of different ages."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"One day you’ll search for me in everyone you meet but I won’t be found."
- Kirsten Corlay (via thatkindofwoman)
