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

What age is your DD? I don’t know of anything similar that would suit primary school, I’m afraid. I use this with secondary school students but obviously am able to contextualise the swearing and so on with them.

I do love the Ginger Rogers quotation but I also love in Town Bloody Hall ( early 1970s) when Germaine Greer and others were debating with Norman Mailer & he had said it takes balls to write & a woman said - tell me Mr Mailer what colour ink do you dip them in - even he smiled at that.

Oops hope this posts

A recent one. 'Women do have vaginas, Nick.' - Liz Truss

love it

My mum of primary age paraphase would be...

There is a rule of thumb that allows you to judge, when time is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment, whether or not some sexist nonsense is afoot. Obviously, it’s not 100% accurate but by and large it definitely points you in the right direction and it's asking this question; are the boys doing it? Are the men and boys worrying about this as well? Is this taking up their time? Are the boys told not to do this, as it's letting the side down? Are the men having to write bloody books about this stupid frustrating, time-wasting, nonsense? Is this making over confident jerks worry and feel insecure?
Almost always the answer is no. The boys are not being told they have to be a certain way, they are just getting on with stuff.

It sure if this counts as it's a Hollywood actor, but it rings true with me...

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“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

This was the most helpful thing I ever read.

This one must never be forgotten. So grateful she saw fit to halt the self-id policy ages before uttering this.
If Liz Truss does become PM, she will have her work cut out; but how lovely for women and children to know she is on the side of her own sex and child safeguarding.
I still can't believe Theresa May 'fell for' gender identity ideology but she did have a lot on her plate at the time.

I am not free when any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. Audre Lorde.

I marched, with my daughter, with a banner saying that, back at the Women's March in London in 2017.

Men their rights and nothing more;
women their rights and nothing less

Susan B. Anthony (Motto of the Revolution, 1868)

Personally and I know she has since gone off the rails down the trans rabbit-hole, I was very influenced by Naomi Wolf's 'The Beauty Myth'.
'A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.'

She was also very strong on the dangers of unnecessary cosmetic surgery and predicted that men would eventually fall foul to it as well....and of course with trans surgical mutilation now all the rage......she was right.

Yes! The beauty myth was one of the first feminist books I laid hands on (at 18) and that particular discussion led me to asking all of the women I knew if they were dieting. Every one- every one! Said yes or no but I should/ will soon. At the time I was dieting. And when I asked all those women I realised that they ranged from teens to octogenarians and they'd ALL effectively spent a life , on a diet, breaking a diet, waiting to diet, or feeling that they SHOULD diet. I asked the men on my life the same question and they all just said no. I may not agree with all noami wolf has to say- but she is still a woman, and inspired me, and wrote a very important piece of feminist literature.

“Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”
Naomi Wolf
At the time she was the perfect person to say this stuff as she was conventionally beautiful in a very natural way.

"Woman-made woman"
That's beautiful

I agree. All human beings are 'woman-made'. The TWAW brigade rather overlook this basic biological fact.