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“We are called Sad Asian Girls, Hot-tempered Latinas, Crazy White Women, and Angry Black Women. It goes without saying that “angry women” are “ugly women,” the cardinal sin in a world where women’s worth, safety, and glory are reliant on their sexual and reproductive value to men around them.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Women who are actively aware of discrimination and develop a comfort level in speaking about it openly are the most likely to challenge aggressions in their daily lives and report higher levels of "closure" and satisfaction than those who don't.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Life is complex, conceptually dominated by binaries but never wholly contained by them.”
― Zadie Smith, Recitatif

“The challenge we face is in being unapologetic about our desires and decisions and in not judging other women's choices. It is in rechanneling the anger, guilt, and shame that we often encounter into creating a culture that no longer conflates the word woman with mother and the word mother with sacrifice.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger