“society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spectacles from a young age, when women focus on their own erotic desires and satisfaction, they are seen as monsters, and even more so when they get rich doing it.”
Source: Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
“As far back as my ancestral tree could branch, there were women who had been overpowered by men, underestimated by men, controlled by men, dominated by men, all the way back to the very roots of humanity. That anger had woven itself into the fabric of our beings. And instead of giving it room to breathe, we let it fester like black mould, destroying us from the inside out.”
Source: The Society For Soulless Girls
“Generally, men told stories to boast, but women were different. They wanted to look at their words in the air and extract the meaning, and if you shut up and listened, they'd tell you very interesting things indeed.”
Source: Popisho
“And I believe all men think of me as a person. Correction: not all men. And I believe all men care about consent. Correction: not all men.”
Source: Artemis Made Me Do It
“I didn’t stay in New York and let David go to San Francisco because I like the Statue of Liberty. I did it because I want to climb the ladder as high as I possibly can. I did it because I want my name, the name my father gave me, in big, bold letters one day. This is my chance.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I grieve to leave: I love this place-I love it,
because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,-
momentarily at least.
I have not been trampled on.
I have not been petrified.
I have not been buried with inferior minds,
and excluded from every glimpse of communion with
what is bright and energetic and high.
I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence,
with what I delight in,- with an original, a vigorous, an
expanded mind.
I have known you; and it strikes me with terror and
anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for
ever.
I see the necessity of departure;
and it is like looking in the necessity of death.”
Source: Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Edition With Illustrations
“There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Ah, but you we're not a pawn, All along you have been the queen”
Source: An Enchantment of Ravens
“Women’s rights remain a continuous battle around the globe; where education as a basic right is nothing but a dream and where possession of their own bodies is a debatable matter.”
“In their emancipation women are losing what has always made them emotionally superior to men, their tenderness and essential warmth of heart. It’s happening, Jill girl. And men are getting so they don’t care, and when that attitude comes to full flower we’ll maybe have another Roman holiday on our hands, and another age of glory lost under a pall of ashes—”
Source: The Viking Stranger