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“Female. That label has never done anything for me except dictate what I can or cannot do. No going anywhere without permission. No showing too much skin. No speaking too loudly or unkindly, or at all, if the men are talking. No living my life without being constantly aware of how pleasing I am to the eye. No future except pushing out son after son for a husband”

Feminism Feminist Woman Womans Rights

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“There's not a stratum of the world that doesn't need girls. Maybe we're devalued precisely because we're so valuable. The world is too afraid of not bein able to obtain and control us to respect our true worth.”

Feminism Women Empowerment

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“Wu Zetian," a medley of voices whispers in my head. Not just Shimin's but Big Sister's as well. And Yizhi's. And my mother's. And my grandmother's. And so, so many nameless girls who have suffered under the lies I must expose. "Be their nightmare.”

Feminism Scifi Iron Widow

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“Never appease. No one's ever been respected for appeasing. The only thing you did was let them know there are no consequences to treating you like trash.”

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“It's hilarious. Men want us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds.”

Feminism Badass Women

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“It's hilarious. Men want us so badly for our bodies, hate us so much for our minds.”

Feminism Badass Women Wu Zetian

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“The voices that refused to be silenced, the hands that refused to be bound, the spirits that refused to be broken”

Feminism Feminist Quotes Womens Strength

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“He can’t change anything. He doesn’t own me. Nobody does. They may think they do, but no matter how they scold or threaten or beat me, they can’t really control what goes on in my head, and I think that frustrates them to no end.”

Feminism Control Abuse Survivor

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“You don't think girls are afraid?" "Girls... know how to sacrifice.”

Feminism Womens Rights Womens Empowerment

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“How could they refuse to let girls have their own Chrysalises?' I say through clenched teeth. "It would be such a help to the war!" Yizhi's eyes darken. "What family would let their son enlist if there's a realistic possibility that he'd be killed by a girl.”

Feminism Sexism Womens Empowerment

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

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