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

Sorry I will stop now 🤣🤣

@BeReet

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)

Ooh, I shall look out for them!

"If you want my X respect my sex."

Women (in Scotland iirc) re voting.

"Women may be the one group that's grows more radical with age."

Gloria Steinem

Rogue 's, sorry

Amy Poehler said in Moxie 'i can pack my suitcase I can pack my bag'

Have no idea who wrote it but her delivery had me in stitches! Deadpan face, I want to be that bad ass!!

"Transgender women are targeted because of their gender, just like cisgender women are, and also because of transphobia. That's like how women of colour can be targeted both on the basis of misogyny and race. Marginalising these women even more contributes to violence."

Ash Sarkar

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

Arundhati Roy

"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated"

Rosalind Franklin.

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made." RBG

"When I see how trans people are treated and the agony that a lot of trans people deal with – the suicide rates, the murder rates of Black trans women – I just think, ‘Do you really think that’s a choice?'"

Roxane Gay

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Absolutely not anyone's first choice of feminist I don't doubt, but I like this quote from Ayn Rand..

The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me?

“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”

JK Rowling

This one came up on Pinterest earlier and felt apt

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Margaret Thatcher

"A gude cause maks a strong arm" - Scottish Suffragettes

No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex" Susan B Anthony. And also what I will write on my vote if I decide I have to spoil it.

"Transgenderism is the right to lie about your sex. Transphobia is the refusal to believe that lie" Venice Allan.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.'

Jane Austen

I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."
Audre Lorde 1

I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

Audre Lorde 2

"Beware; for I am fearless and therefore powerful"

Mary Shelley

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.

And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

Audre Lorde 3. Sorry it's so long, but it's just so perfect.

"You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I rise."

Maya Angelou

only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

Perfect, indeed.