“Feminism that isn't intersectional, that doesn't help others and work to change systemic inequality, is not feminism.”
Source: Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
“Women are poetry,
Men are philosophy.
Entire school of thought,
finds a voice undistraught,
in one little poetry.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive,
and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered”
Source: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women;
those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are
poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an
academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For
the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us
temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about
genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the
master's house as their only source of support.”
Source: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
“It is unthinkable and monstrous in patriarchy for women to demonstrate that we care as much about justice and dignity, as much about freedom for ourselves and our sisters -- to the laying down of our lives, if necessary -- as men and women have always cared about justice and freedom for men. It is the ultimate anti-patriarchal act. It is heresy. It is revolution.”
Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“Quelle stesse parole che ci dicono di ignorare, se le usiamo noi, non le sanno ignorare mica.”
Source: Ne uccide più la lingua: Smontare e contestare la discriminazione di genere che passa per le parole
“Non ci hanno insegnato a dare i nomi alle cose, perché quando cominci a nominare gli eventi, le violenze, le manipolazioni, poi rischi di compiere un passo terribile e temuto: aprire gli occhi.”
Source: Ne uccide più la lingua: Smontare e contestare la discriminazione di genere che passa per le parole
“Finché non chiami le cose col loro nome non ne hai consapevolezza”
Source: Ne uccide più la lingua: Smontare e contestare la discriminazione di genere che passa per le parole
“Everything is going to be okay, my girl. I know that everything will work out for you. Be brave, be strong. Don’t listen to anyone – make your own decisions and take responsibility for them. Nothing stands in your way – only you. Remember that. Remember that always.”
Source: Under
“This is a love story, though. The kind where the lover laments all the years she lost at the altar of some false god. When regret seeps in, I try to remember the Hecatoncheires. They did not defeat the Titans as children. They lived under their power. They were of the Titans. It took years for their strength to surpass that of the old gods. But when they did? They threw mountains, a hundred at a time, one for each great hand. And what if they had been taught to hate their own strength? Maybe it would have taken a hundred years for them to grasp a mountain in hand, to understand what they could do, that they could make their own Olympus.”
Source: Girlhood