Top Feminism Quotes
Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to se...
Patience Johnson
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dreams, family, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, future, history, imagination, inspirational, leadership
Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply hav...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, feminism, sexuality, images, body image, magazines
No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you.She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice be...
Charlotte Bronte
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equality, marriage, men, women, courtship, independence, self awareness, self determination, dignity, empowerment
No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent homes and can be macho and women-hating, misguided assumptions about what makes a male gay still flouri...
Bell Hooks
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emotions, gay, feelings, feminism, feminist, violence, masculinity, gay men, feelings and emotions, emotional men
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of...
Virginia Woolf
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women, hypocrisy, self determination, liberty, dignity, empowerment, feminism, sexuality, morality, gender
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking beautiful. If women can walk but believe our...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehen...
Charlotte Bronte
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women, hypocrisy, expectations, illusions, empowerment, feminism, stereotypes, gender, misogyny, double standards