Yours for the Taking Quotes

“The unfortunate truth is that climate change is coming for us faster than equal rights are. The data proves it: if we stay on our current course, women will not become truly equal to men before the world is made uninhabitable. What is urgently needed now, if we have any hope of changing our fate, is an immediate, complete restructuring of how gender dynamics play out in our culture. And rather than continuing to focus on empowerment for women, it is imperative that what is considered and worked toward, instead, is power—in its simplest, purest form. Did I lose you when I said that? I implore my female readers to stop for a moment and think about why you’ve been told to feel that power is such a dirty word.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“Equality is only scary if you have to give up power to attain it.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“as a woman, believing in yourself sometimes had to be enough.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“She realized that it wasn’t enough to assume the things you wanted would happen; you had to make them happen. The things that she wanted were hers for the taking, or not taking, but either way, action and choice were imperative. Passivity would never yield the intended results.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“It’s not like men have made the world better.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“Every generation thinks the world is ending,”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“If we’re going to make it out alive, women must stop hesitating, and start claiming.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“The unfortunate truth is that climate change is coming for us faster than equal rights are.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking

“Hypothetical global chaos had more appeal than the slow-burn anxiety of going through the motions of normalcy when you knew, in no uncertain terms, that the world was actually going to shit.”
― Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking