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“But remember that anyone who tells you you’re “too” anything is using the word because they are threatened by your capacity to grow, evolve and express your emotions.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“Choosing yourself will always disappoint some people. The sooner we accept this and make peace with it, the better.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“Stop breaking yourself down into bite-sized pieces. Stay whole and let them choke.” –”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“You are not a source of energy for others to take. This is your table, you set the standards and you choose who gets a seat. Start turning away people who have the audacity to show up in your life with crumbs, because crumbs can’t feed you. Find someone who brings you a whole cake.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“The world owes you nothing, and equally you owe it nothing.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“Imagine all of the past versions of yourself, standing right in front of you. They are all smiling, looking back at you. They are so proud of you.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“No one’s approval is ever worth compromising your own boundaries and abandoning your own beliefs for.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“It’s not their bullying that “made me the person I am today”, but my own resilience that enabled me to adapt.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“Crumbs can’t feed me. I want the cake.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“They’re just a distraction. Carry on as you were.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“Women who don’t have kids are called “selfish” and made to feel that their life is a waste. Women in heterosexual relationships who earn more than their partners are labelled “controlling” or “bossy”. Women who reject sexual advances are called “frigid”, yet that same accuser will call a woman who enjoys casual sex a “slut”. When people make autonomous decisions about their bodies and their lifestyles they are met with a whole spectrum of resistance and this is particularly true for marginalized people. Anything that deviates from the narrative society has written for and about you is shamed and unaccepted.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“Knowing you have been unintentionally causing harm and benefitting from unfair systems is uncomfortable. But think about how uncomfortable it must be existing on the flip side of that privilege.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

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

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

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

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

“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

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
― Cheris Kramarae

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

“But you still haven't said you love me."
"That's not true."
"You haven't."
"I say it all the time, I just say it very, very quietly. I tell you when you're in another room, or right after we hang up the phone. I tell you when you've got headphones on. I say it after you shut the door behind you. I say it in my head every time you look at me.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other