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#1

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr

tags: feminism, power, women

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#2

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

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#3

“She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who’s only holding Cinderella back.”

"That’s my girl.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

tags: cinderella, fairy-tales, feminism, humor

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#4

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: aging, feminism, radicals, women

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#5

“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― 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, sexual-violence, sexuality, society

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#6

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics

tags: equality, feminism, women

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#7

“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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#8

“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
― Sojourner Truth

tags: feminism

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#9

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
― Marie Shear

tags: equality, feminism, frequently-misattributed-quote, women, womens-rights

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#10

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
― Charlotte Whitton

tags: feminism, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women

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