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“Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.”
― Sheryl Sandberg

“Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
― Peter Drucker

“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

“I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“When a woman is ‘too much’, she is essentially uncontrollable and unashamed. That makes her dangerous.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

“The fact is that worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture. And if that culture is as male-biased as ours is, it can’t help but be biased against women. By default.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men