Feminist Quotes Quotes

“I am a strong and powerful woman.
I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman.
I am not defined by other people’s opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a woman. I determine that, not anyone else.
I am not passed up for a position, title, or promotion because I am a woman.
I fully deserve all the good things that comes my way.
Irrespective of what anyone might think, being a woman places no boundaries or limits on my abilities.
I can do anything I set my mind to.
I celebrate my womanhood and I am beautiful both inside and out.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Mothers are our world. Sisters are our sky. Daughters are our stars. Women are our universe.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.”
― Aysha Taryam

“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

“The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion. She questions whether she loves her children enough- or more terribly, does she love them too much? Do her looks cause embarrassment- or even terrifying, is she so attractive her sons begin to desire her and her daughters begin to hate her. If she is unmarried, the challenges are increased. Her singleness indicates she has rejected or has been rejected by her mate. Yet she is raising children who will become mates. Beyond her door, all authority is in the hands of people who do not look or think or act like her children. Teachers, doctors, sales, clerks, policemen, welfare workers who are white and exert control over her family’s moods, conditions and personality, yet within the home, she must display a right to rule which at any moment, by a knock at the door, or a ring in the telephone, can be exposed as false. In the face of this contradictions she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged.”
― Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

“Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious.”
― Claire Hennessy, Nothing Tastes as Good

“I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.”
― Erin Passons, The Nasty Women Project: Voices from the Resistance

“A woman may be able to do anything, but that doesn't mean that she can do everything.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis

“Who even had the right to place singlehood on the list of pathetic stuff in the Encyclopedia of life? I often feel much happier if I am alone, at least until I remember that it’s not very socially acceptable to be alone, single, and lonely. Sometimes I feel like even a harem would be more acceptable than a single person. Because something must be completely wrong with someone if nobody wants them. How stupid! Something is wrong with this person! She’s happy when she’s alone! She’s happy to be by herself. Handle that, if you can.”
― Rose S. White, You - The World of Thoughts Matters

“When we do not fully and equally represent the masculine and the feminine in church and civic leadership, we cannot represent the human experience or Jesus.”
― Tina Schermer Sellers, Sex, God, and the Conservative Church

“radical joy isn’t just a pursuit, it’s an act of defiance.”
― malebo sephodi

“Generosity and bravery are intertwined – especially when it comes to women supporting other women.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“Yet this is an illusion that assumes we have power over how other people view and respond to us.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

“It takes one person to make change happen.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“There are so many African women who are sources of feminist inspiration. Because of what they have done and because of what they have refused to do.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“She can counter ideas about static ‘gender roles’ if she has been empowered by her familiarity with alternatives.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“Feminism saved my mind.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“I will forever be the enemy of patriarchy, whichever language it speaks or God it worships.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“It was overwhelmingly white men held the keys to the doors that I needed to get through.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“I would accept nothing less than substantive, transformative and unconditional equality, for myself and for others.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“Once you have begun the journey of awakening, there is no turning back.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

“Being a feminist doesn’t mean I don’t need a man, but it means I don’t need one to define my worth.”
― Marion Bekoe

“At times, it seems the leash Abramovich has me on is rather a long one, but that is just another part of his cruel game—effecting the illusion of freedom. A game he has no doubt been playing with Taj for much of his life. Little freedoms were granted me right off the bat from the moment I stepped foot on this planet. Much of my time is spent on my own, for example, roaming freely about the compound and right out the front door to the cliffs below, should it suit me. Beyond that, Abramovich is often forthcoming with
select information and relatively open with my access to the network. This
includes allowing me visibility into the schematics of most of his creations
that are stored there. I can only assume it is because he does not see me, or
more precisely, my intellect, as much of a threat. I suppose I’ll consider it an
advantage, one of the few unwittingly granted my age and gender, and that is
the advantage of being overlooked, unseen, and underestimated.

I think back to the day I arrived at the compound and met Abramovich for
the first time. Just blown in off the tundra, I was no more than a sickly waif
still reeling at the revelation that he had burned our beloved, wicked world.
In retrospect, it serves me well to have appeared weak—a non-threat—and
as much as I resent being treated as inferior simply because I am young and I am female, I recognize that it allows me to capitalize on the regular gross underestimation of my brain, my guts, and my spine that I’ve encountered thus far in life.

My gender, we are silent killers when the time comes, and it would
behoove those who assume otherwise to recognize it. Mordecai Abramovich
is one upon whom I can promise you it is lost. Today, every day before, and
likely every day after, he remains in the dark about the sort of hell that will
one day rain down on him by my hand. Presently, I am nothing more than a
pawn to him to be used and manipulated. However, Imani always said, “We
teach people how to treat us,” so maybe if I can live through this, he will
learn something new about my gender through me that isn’t written in his
Founders’ Creed.”
― Kathryn Combs, Sancta Femina

“I never asked for permission. I was born to break the frame.”
― Leonor Anthony

“My roots are not chains—they are wings in disguise”
― Leonor Anthony

“I carry generations of women in my blood. I honor them with every defiant stroke”
― Leonor Anthony

“Call me loud, call me too much. I call it power.”
― Leonor Anthony

“KLEOPATRA
Yere batsın o Roma, bizi çekiştiren dilleri kopsun!
Bu savaşta benim de göreceğim işler var,
Devletimin başı olarak bir erkeğim ben de burda.
Karşı durma bana; ben gerilerde duramam.”
― William Shakespeare, Antonius ve Kleopatra