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Favourite Feminist quote?
kittenkipping · 26/06/2022 21:00
A light hearted thread comparably to most in the topic, but I'm planning on printing a selection of feminist quotes , framing them, and hanging them in my cloakroom toilet. Sound odd I know but I have young girls and I think reading these regularly will be good and what's more- I just think it'll be cool 
I'm opening with Simone de bouvoirs “Never forget that it only takes a political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be called into question. These rights can never be taken for granted. You must remain vigilant throughout your life.” As it's so currently relevant given yesterdays news re roe v wade
I'll counter the heavy with the classic "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle " and maya angelous "Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."
Do any of you have any favourites or suggestions to add to my womens wall?
Thanks
MrsTerryPratchett · 26/06/2022 23:13
“People ask me sometimes, ‘When will there be enough women on the court?’ My answer is: ‘When there are nine.’ People are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”
Considering the shit since her death, RBG must be spinning.
Thelnebriati · 27/06/2022 12:05
"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.”
Susan B. Anthony, 1872
"Integrity is what you do when nobody is watching."
Anon
“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 used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore. It doesn't matter who the individual women are. They all have the same vulnerability to rape, to battery, as children to incest.
Poorer women have more vulnerability to prostitution, which is basically a form of sexual exploitation that is intolerable in an egalitarian society, which is the society we are fighting for.”
Andrea Dworkin.
carrotsnotsticks · 28/06/2022 18:51
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hope that works ! have you seen these fantastic posters?
howdoesatoastermaketoast · 11/07/2022 14:52
PetitionP · 26/06/2022 22:45
Rebecca West: I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
I had this on the wall of my college room - love it
howdoesatoastermaketoast · 12/07/2022 09:29
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone
"You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.
I’m not saying that you SHOULDN’T be pretty if you want to. (You don’t owe UN-prettiness to feminism, in other words.) Pretty is pleasant, and fun, and satisfying, and makes people smile, often even at you. But in the hierarchy of importance, pretty stands several rungs down from happy, is way below healthy, and if done as a penance, or an obligation, can be so far away from independent that you may have to squint really hard to see it in the haze."
Erin's original blog
BasiliskStare · 17/07/2022 05:00
@kittenkipping - I am not sure whether you have seen "Town Bloody Hall" - it was late 70s I think - Germain Greer and some other feminists of the times debating with Norman Mailer in NY.
Question from the audience from a woman "Mr Mailer - you once said it took balls to write " He nods
Woman then says " What colour ink do you dip them in " Even he smiled.
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