Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and wome...
We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the honor of the country. We, the most hated, must tak...
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
Even in my most intimate moments with a man, I am alone.
You can be freak of the week, critical thinker & a domestic goddess all in one. There is a beauty in your layers, never dumb yourself down.
Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.
Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.
I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.
#ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.
You will not be master of my body & my property
I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agr...
I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.
Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work.... so when I saw how happy and...
[F]eminism wasn't supposed to make us feel guilty, or prod us into constant competition over who is raising children better, organizing more cooperative marriages, or getting less sleep. It was suppos...
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women
As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning its government or by saying three times "As a woman my country is the whole world." -Notes Towards a...
Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.
Life is not a competition between men and women, it is a collaboration.