Favourite Feminist quote?

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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

A recent JK one

“a shared belief that women exist as a biological class (and water's wet and the moon's not made of cheese) does not an ally make. I believe women are susceptible to certain harms and have specific needs and that feminism is necessary to secure and protect our rights.”

No thank you. Sarah Robles.

There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride”

― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

‘Women have very little idea of how much men hate them’ - Germaine Greer

It isn’t uplifting or inspirational but it is raw and true.

A lighter one from when I thought feminists shouldn’t care about their appearance.

“You're not betraying the sisterhood just by brushing your hair once in a while.” Twist from tv show Spaced.

“Unlikable women refuse to give in to that temptation. They are, instead, themselves. They accept the consequences of their choices, and those consequences become stories worth reading.“

Roxane Gay

Pmk

I came across Dworkin whilst recently working on my Masters dissertation. Whilst doing my oral presentation I could visibly see the 2 male examiners squirming in their seat.

“If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.”

”Brains are the new tits.”

”Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” Germaine Greer.

@ShirleyJackson that last one was Margaret Atwood, not Greer. (Atwood seems to have forgotten what she meant these days)

Oops, apologies. The heat has turned my brain to soup.

This cartoon

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If you don't want to click the link is a woman and two men looking at a poster for Fred Astaire and the woman says, ""Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ...backwards and in high heels."

Not strictly speaking a feminist quote but it shows how society values the work of men more than women.

My DD loves that quote @sashh

Entry-level feminism. Gateway feminism if you will

@sashh I think that was a ginger Rogers quote originally wasn't it?

She says not in an interview I read - it was originally said about her, she saw the cartoon and did repeat the saying herself as she found it very apt.

I think about this a lot at work…

"Is this making Jeremy Clarkson insecure?" ought to be a mantra for life for every woman in the world.

Ah thanks @howdoesatoastermaketoast

"Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it." - Luce Irigaray

'There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.'

Charlotte Perkins

I used to use the 'would a man be doing this' rule about all school requests. Would a man be baking at 3am because someone forgot to tell him about a bake sale? No. Would a man skip work three times in a week for 'essential' social stuff at school? No.

I was rather buggered when DD made friends with a male artist's DD and he knocked out a full dragon costume overnight. With a tail that 'worked'. But he was a special case I think.

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross thank you for that one, do you know of a similar quote appropriate for school age dd? I wish she hadn’t used the word ‘retarded’

You beat me to it

That's mine, too.

I assume she meant it in the actual sense of being held back/delayed/not making progress - though the unpleasant meaning has kind of taken over.