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#1

“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.”
― M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

tags: feminism, gender, misogyny, psychopathy, religion, society, sociopathy, women

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#2

“But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”
― francis chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

tags: christianity, god, trust

927 likes

#3

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women

2346 likes

#4

“Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.”
― Molly Ivins, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

tags: feminism, humor, men, privilege, women

511 likes

#5

“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: feminism, inspirational

387 likes

#6

“I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

tags: equality, feminism, idolizing, male-insecurity, muse, peace-of-mind

700 likes

#7

“If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-testing, animal-welfare, animals, cosmetics, ethics, prisoners, vegan, veganism

1182 likes

#8

“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores. ”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: food, health, meat, veganism, vegetarianism

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#9

“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, animals, inspirational-quotes, justice, nonviolence, peace-movement, peace-on-earth, rights, veganism

203 likes

#10

“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”
― T. Casey Brennan

tags: animal-rights, vegan, veganism

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#11

“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

tags: buddhism, veganism, vegetarianism

102 likes

#12

“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, animal-products, dairy, exploitation, francione, milk, mother, nonviolence, slavery, veganism

48 likes

#13

“Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.”
― GaryLFrancione

tags: abolition, abolitionist, ahimsa, animals, education, exploitation, francione, inspirational-quotes, justice, life, nonviolence, nonviolence-jainism, peace-making, peace-movement, peace-on-earth, rights, sentience, slavery, veganism, wisdom

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#14

“There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.”
― Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

tags: society, veganism

33 likes

#15

“Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.”
― Victoria Moran, Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World

tags: cruelty-free, veganism

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#16

“The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we're on auto-pilot and don't even realize we're following a course of action that we haven't consciously chosen. Most people who eat meat have no idea that they're behaving in accordance with the tenets of a system that has defined many of their values, preferences, and behaviors. What they call 'free choice' is, in fact, the result of a narrowly obstructed set of options that have been chosen for them. They don't realize, for instance, that they have been taught to value human life so far above certain forms of nonhuman life that it seems appropriate for their taste preferences to supersede other species' preference for survival.”
― Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

tags: animals, carnism, meat, norms, veganism

34 likes

#17

“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

tags: animals, holocaust, veganism

117 likes

#18

“If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.”
― Kris Carr, Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!

tags: veganism

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#19

“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected.

Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both.

Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them.”
― Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation

tags: abuse, culture, entitlement, harassment, hypersexualization, rape, rape-culture, sexual-abuse, sexual-harassment, sexual-violence, sexuality, society, violence

28 likes

#20

“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.”
― Rai Aren

tags: animal-rights, animals, compassion, equality, ethical-vegan, kindness, life, life-affirming, speciesism, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism

305 likes

#21

“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, exploitation, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, nonviolence, slavery, speciesism, veganism

309 likes

#22

“I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland, lewis-carroll

693 likes

#23

“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
― Bob Marley

tags: peace, soul, wealth, wisdom

3643 likes

#24

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

tags: music

23156 likes

#25

“Love would never leave us alone”
― Bob Marley

1036 likes

#26

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women

3780 likes

#27

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”
― Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden

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#28

“The workplace would allow parents to work part time, to share jobs, to take personal leaves to give birth, tend to a sick child, or care for a well one. As Delores Hayden has envisioned in Redesigning the American Dream, it would include affordable housing closer to places of work and perhaps community-based meal and laundry services.”
― Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

tags: gender-roles, the-american-dream, work

3 likes

#29

“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, feministic-discrimination, gender-inequality, gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, womens-liberation

40 likes

#30

“How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness?”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

tags: gender, gender-roles, nonconformity

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