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Favourite feminist quotes?

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GenderNo · 04/04/2022 21:26

Let's share our favourite feminist quotes!

Here are some of mine:

"Your silence will not protect you"

  • Audre Lorde

“Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.”
― Sheila Jeffreys

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. […] We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

  • Malala Yousafzai

“Female is real, and it’s sex, and femininity is unreal, and it’s gender.”
― Germaine Greer

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MichelleScarn · 04/04/2022 22:03

Shazza from Bridget Jones. On men being that's...
"Fuck 'em fuck the lot of them"

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 04/04/2022 22:00

Bell Hooks.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
– Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, 2000

No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’ … No woman has ever written enough.”
– Remembered Rapture: The Writer At Work, 1999

We continue to put in place the anti-sexist thinking and practice which affirms the reality that females can achieve self-actualization and success without dominating one another.”
– Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, 2000

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 04/04/2022 21:59

"Courage calls to courage everywhere" -- Dame Millicent Fawcett

DomesticatedZombie · 04/04/2022 21:49

Maya Angelou — 'Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.'

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 04/04/2022 21:47

"Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are."
—Andrea Dworkin

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