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    Brigham Young
    “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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    Bette Davis
    “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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    Margaret Atwood
    “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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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Rebecca West
    “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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    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
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    “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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    Betty Friedan
    “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
    ― Betty Friedan
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    Gloria Steinem
    “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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    George Carlin
    “He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: equality, feminism, feminist, george-carlin, god, men-and-women, religion
    1918 likes

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    Madeleine K. Albright
    “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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    Roman Payne
    “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
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    Roman Payne
    “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
    tags: bravery, coming-of-age, dreams, exploring, feminine, feminine-beauty, feminine-principle, feminine-transitions, femininity, feminism, growing-up, inspirational-life, life-choices, novel-quotes, payne, queen, quotes-from-novels, roman-payne, travel, traveling-alone, voyage, wanderess, womanhood
    647 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism
    659 likes

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    Samantha Shannon
    “No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
    ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
    tags: feminism, inspirational
    643 likes

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    Betty Friedan
    “Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”
    ― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
    tags: existentialism, feminism, housekeeping, inspirational, marriage, parenting, purpose
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: feminism, sisterhood, women
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “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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    Virginia Woolf
    “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
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “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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    Dolly Parton
    “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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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
    tags: feminism, financial-freedom, islam
    295 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: feminism, humor
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    “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
    235 likes

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    Robert Thier
    “Chains of gold are still chains.”
    ― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
    tags: equality, feminism, freedom, marriage
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    “There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”
    ― Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    tags: feminism, gender-equality, stereotypes
    210 likes

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    Jaclyn Friedman
    “A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We’re messy. We don’t behave. In fact, the original definition of “slut” meant “untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who color outside of the lines get called sluts. And that word is meant to keep us in line.”
    ― Jaclyn Friedman
    tags: consent, double-standards, equality, female-empowerment, female-liberation, feminism, freedom-of-expression, rape-culture, slut, slut-shaming, social-norms, societal-standards, society
    157 likes

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    Françoise Sagan
    “Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.”
    ― Françoise Sagan
    tags: feminism, whisky
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    Taylor Rhodes
    “blessed be
    she
    who is
    both
    furious
    and
    magnificent”
    ― Taylor Rhodes, calloused: a field journal
    tags: feminism, human-condition, nonfiction, strong-women, womanhood, women-s-strength
    165 likes

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    Amanda Lovelace
    “all of the oceans
    & galaxies
    did not
    conspire together to
    create me
    just so i could
    reproduce for
    you.

    -Startling Fact #1”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One
    tags: feminism
    119 likes



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