Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are true...
Gender and class are different. Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.
Feminista: uma pessoa que acredita na igualdade social, política e econômica entre os sexos.
Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. My
Existem pessoas (...) que acham que nós não conseguimos governar nosso próprio país, pois nas poucas vezes em que tentamos nós falhamos, como se todos os outros que se governam hoje em dia tivessem ac...
Enseñamos a las chicas a tener vergüenza. Cierra las piernas. Tápate. Les hacemos sentir que, por el hecho de nacer mujeres, ya son culpables de algo. Y lo que sucede es que las chicas se convierten e...
El problema del género es que prescribe cómo 'tenemos que ser', en vez de reconocer cómo somos realmente. Imagínese lo felices que seríamos, lo libres que seríamos siendo quienes somos en realidad, si...
Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not exclusive.
Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. ‘Because you are a girl’ is never a reason for anything. Ever.
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
Criamos a las mujeres para que se vean las unas a las otras como competidoras, y no por puestos de trabajo ni logros personales, que es algo que en mi opinión podría ser bueno, sino por la atención de...
But Nature is unfair to women. An act is done by two people, but if there are any consequences, one person carries it alone.
But Kimberly’s unhappiness was inward, unacknowledged, shielded by her desire for things to be as they should, and also by hope: she believed in other people’s happiness because it meant that she, too...
Big Men and Big Women, Obinze would later learn, did not talk to people, they instead talked at people...
Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.
At the checkout, the blond cashier asked, Did anybody help you? Yes, Ginika said. Chelcy or Jennifer? I’m sorry, I don’t remember her name. Ginika looked around, to point at her helper, but both young...
Are you still working on that? Since when did eating become work?
Anglo-Saxon Protestant, otherwise known as WASP, and American Black is always on the bottom, and what’s in the middle depends on time and place. (Or as that marvelous rhyme goes: if you’re white, you’...
Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
And have your white friend say how funny it is, that American pollsters ask white and black people if racism is over. White people in general say it is over and black people in general say it is not....