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#1

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

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#2

“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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#3

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#4

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

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

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#5

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, qotd

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#6

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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#7

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

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#8

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem

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#9

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

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

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#10

“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

tags: beautiful, existence, feminism, self-esteem

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#11

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women

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#12

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan

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#13

“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
― Joss Whedon

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

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#14

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing

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#15

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
― Roman Payne

tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering

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#16

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism, philosophy

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#17

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women

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#18

“We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of 'liberation for women' is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? 'Vogue' by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY?”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

tags: feminism, humour

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#19

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: emancipation, empowerment, feminism, gender, men, misogyny, women

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#20

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: death, feminism, men, murder, widowhood, women, womens-rights

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#21

“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."

"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: books, clichés, constancy, double-standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men, misogyny, opportunities, social-norms, stereotypes, women

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#22

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― 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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#23

“Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

tags: feminism, men, women

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#24

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

tags: feminism

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#25

“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

tags: death, fear, feminism, gender, men, rape, sexism, women

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#26

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
― Erin McKean

tags: beauty, feminism, not-diana-vreeland, prettiness

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#27

“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: feminism, inspirational

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#28

“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

tags: boys, discovery, feminism, gender-inequality, girls

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#29

“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, self-esteem, self-love, sexual-violence, sexuality, society

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#30

“Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.”
― Louise Bernikow

tags: feminism, friendship

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