Female Empowerment Quotes

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“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

“I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.”
― Erin Van Vuren

“Perhaps you can explain it to me, then,” she said, “how is it fair that my utterly inept cousin is in command of me, for no reason other than that he’s a man and I’m a woman? How is it fair that I master Latin and Greek as well as any man at Oxford, yet I am taught over a baker’s shop? How is it fair that a man can tell me my brain was wired wrong, when his main achievement in life seems to be his birth into a life of privilege? And why do I have to beg a man to please make it his interest that I, too, may vote on the laws that govern my life every day?”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke

“When they (the men, the scavengers)
come for you, do not give yourself
to them so easily.

Wear your strength like armour,
fight like a beast.
Do not let them tell you that
you belong to them.

Be fearless.
Be a lion.
Be like lava.
Rip them apart,
and burn their bones.

And when you are done,
tell the world that
you belong to no man.
That you are a lady,
a warrior,
a tsunami,
and you belong only to yourself.”
― Zaeema J. Hussain, The Sky Is Purple

“While many of us pursue comfort through upgraded plane tickets, luxurious hotels, and fine dining experiences, authentic comfort runs deeper. It encompasses how we carry ourselves, express our unique identities, and navigate the complex web of culture and fashion in diverse destinations.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God.”
― Roman Payne

“When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Stoic,
She lives most heroic,
smiling with ruby, moistened lips
once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”
― Roman Payne

“Remember when they call you girl, they're trying to tell you something. They're trying to tell you that they're more than you, that the body you're in makes you less. But you know, and I know, that you're exactly what you need to be.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Seafire

“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Bronte, Bronte, and Bronte. I began to resent Emily, Anne, and Charlotte—my old friends—with a terrifying passion. They were not only talented; they were brave, a trait I admired more than anything but couldn't seem to possess. The world that raised these women hadn't allowed them to write, yet they had spun fiery novels in spite of all the odds. Meanwhile, I was failing with all the odds tipped in my favor. Here I was, living out Virginia Woolf's wildest feminist fantasy. I was in a room of my own. The world was no longer saying, "Write? What's the good of your writing?" but was instead saying "Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me.”
― Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs

“She can be a whirlwind of tits and terror when she puts her mind to a purpose, can't she, sir?”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

“He fears because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort, for their appeasement.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“I wonder how much of a woman's life is spent this way. Enduring. Waiting for enjoyment or, fuck it, death.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“People have so little regard for female friendship that they can’t fathom a closeness such as we have without the romantic element. More fool them.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“In the early aughts, in any direction you looked, popular culture was constantly promoting and celebrating an ‘empowered’ vision of sexuality that was wholeheartedly informed by male desire and male pleasure.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“In the early aughts, in any direction you looked, popular culture was constantly promoting and celebrating an ‘empowered’ vision of s*xuality that was wholeheartedly informed by male desire and male pleasure.”
― Sophie Gilbert

“Wishing all women, whom God created with wombs as a divine mark of distinction, the courage to continue striving against all efforts to diminish their importance. ”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“WOMANHOOD IS NOT MAKE-UP

Your uterus is your symbol of womanhood.
Your womb is a significant mark of your divinity.
Your monthly menstruation is not just bleeding, but a sign of life.
Your menstruation is a reminder that you can carry creation within you.
No one else has these things except you, woman.

Make-up doesn’t make you a woman.
Clothes don’t make you a woman.
It is the crown on your womb and the power within your uterus that make you a woman.

Your birth canal was created to stretch and deliver life.
It was designed to bring children into this world.
And because you are a divine woman, it returns to its original form and function with grace and ease.

You're a woman because your womanhood cannot be replicated, no matter what.
You're the ultimate bearer of life.
You're chosen to birth both men and women.
The continuation of nature flows through you.

Yours in womanhood,”
― Mitta Xinindlu

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― Mitta Xinindlu

“Dear Venusians,

I wrote beautiful words : words encouraging women all over the world, honouring our divine bodies, our wombs, our menses, our sacred design. A man complained about my beautiful encouraging words, yet I was told I broke no rules for stating WOMANHOOD IS NOT MAKEUP.

Why would they even try to silence the divine truth? These messages are meant to break the Neptunian veil; thus, they carry the Saturnian scale, and any attempt to erase them will only be burned by the power of the Sun.

What I write is not for entertainment. It carries a spiritual undertone, and a call to restore the confidence that has been broken in our women. I do intend to write more love letters to our women, praising our divine bodies, and talking about our beautiful Venusian design.

Yours in womanhood,”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Secara singkat, aku selalu memperkenalkan diri sebagai pengarang atau novelis. Tanpa tambahan "pengarang wanita" atau "pengarang sastra" maupun mengatakan bahwa aku adalah seorang "sastrawan atau sastrawati". Aku tidak berpretensi sebagai "seorang sastrawati". Orang-orang lain, termasuk para cendekiawanlah yang mengenalkan sebutan itu terhadap diriku.”
― Nh. Dini, Dari Rue Saint Simon ke Jalan Lembang

“Saya menyatakan kebingungan mengapa tiba-tiba ada polarisasi antara hijab syar'i dan non-syar'i. Sebagai perempuan muslim yang memakai jilbab sejak kecil, saya mengingat kesadaran bahwa dahulu kategorisasi semacam itu tidak pernah ada. Belakangan, terekspos bahwa gejala mengeksklusifkan simbol agama bersumber dari gerakan- gerakan yang mengarahkan Islam kepada klaim kebenaran tunggal dan juga gejala kapitalisme global yang turut memengaruhi pasar kelas menengah muslim.”
― Kalis Mardiasih, Muslimah yang Diperdebatkan

“No, I’m not tougher. I’m not moodier…I’m just bloody tired. But if I give up and lie on the sofa all day the whole damn thing will fall apart at the seams.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“З тої пори я читала з подвійною пильністю. Свідомість моєї низької освіти давила й корила мене сильно. Я постановила собі будь-що осягнути вищу освіту. Я була завзята, горда, честолюбива і не хотіла ні за що в світі бути тим "нічим", о котрім говорив Муньо з такою погордою. Я не хотіла, щоби мені аж мужчина надав смисл і значення. Рівночасно рішилася я в будучності віддати ту здобуту освіту в користь загалу. В найглибшій глибині мого серця говорив якийсь голос "віддати жінкам".”
― Olha Kobylianska

“I am a wombman. I am female. I create life with my womb and uterus. My womb and uterus are my purest identifications. They can't be replicated. They protect my original identity. They make me a true wombman, and no-one else can claim to be a wombman.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Every priestess, before she learns how to hold others, must first meet the places where she abandoned herself.”
― Martine Wareham, The Modern Priestess Path: A Guide to Embodied Power, Energetic Clarity, and Spiritual Alignment

“He will be "with" them, but he will be looking for you in them.”
― Marion Bekoe

“It felt intrinsically female, the fear of being seen to have too much.”
― Cath Weeks, The Wife's Shadow