Feminist quotes thread

[ArabellaScott]

For a bit of pep on a Friday afternoon, thought I'd gather some stirring quotes.

"I know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the dangers, so long as there is a woman alive to hold up the flag of rebellion" - Emmeline Pankhurst

“Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.” - Christabel Pankhurst

“Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied" - Millicent Fawcett

Lucretia Mott

"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source."

"I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end."

Alice Paul

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“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”

“Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.”

“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

"Intellect will always govern."

Wollstonecraft

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you.... It means, therefore, the courage to be "different"...The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.”

― Adrienne Rich

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

― Gloria Steinem

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.”
― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

"We realise the importance of our voices only when we are silenced"

Malala Yousafzai

Sorry if this lowers the tone but it rings true each and every time

"I'd rather be rude than a fucking liar."
Magdalen Berns

I'm not sure whether this is an accurate quote (google tells me it's from Rebecca West) but my mum used to use it a lot:

“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”

On the contrary, that elevates the tone, Jesus!

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Bette Davis

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.

Rebecca West

@OhHolyJesus you beat me to it. Good choice.

These are great. I am saving this thread for my next lot of slates and Hateful Haberdashery. Coming soon to a railing near you (possibly)

Nice thread

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Betty Friedan

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

Abigail Adams,The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

This is my favourite