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“If we view feminism as an approach, a way to think about the world, it shifts the focus away from words, towards action. Feminist principles are not something that can be ‘achieved’. They are cultivated through a reflective process that has no end. They grow, change and take shape as we do.”

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Book:Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

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“if at the most basic level, consent is the freedom to make decisions, then we must craft a world where those decisions are not governed by oppressive structures. Our focus should be on the structures that push the majority of women into sex work, not individual women who are merely finding ways to survive.”

Book:Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

“To be nourished means to be brimful, satisfied and to treat our bodies with loving-kindness. Nourishment is the opposite of policing and gatekeeping. Nourishment rejects any attempt to blame us for our bodies, to shame us for what we look like or the food we eat. Nourishment rejects dieting. Nourishment is a feminist project because for too long, women’s bodies and what they consume have been monitored.”

Book:Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

“The feminist mission has drifted, and women’s rights have been trumped by issues of racism, religion, and intersectionality. Liberal feminists today care more about the question of Palestinian statehood than the mistreatment of Palestinian women at the hands of their fathers and husbands. In the battle of the vices, sexism has been trumped by racism.”

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Book:Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

“In 2014, for example, German men between the ages of 14 and 30 made up 9 percent of the population but were responsible for half of all the country’s violent crimes. Among new arrivals to Germany, men aged 16 to 30 made up 27 percent of all asylum seekers who came in 2015.”

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Book:Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

“Of all the forces holding back immigrants who grew up Muslim, Islam is the biggest precisely because it enshrines the subordination of women.”

Feminism Womens Rights Womens Liberation

Book:Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

“You don’t have to be happy to smile.”

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“Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's narcissism.”

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Book:Females

Source: Females

“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer limits but turned out to be just road signs.”

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Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy

“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if I wasn’t successful, I must try harder; if something was wrong, it was my fault. More and more now, I see that context is all. When someone judges me or anyone or anything, I ask: Compared to what?”

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Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy

“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever we do, we will internalize the blame. But once we realize there is no such thing as adequacy or perfection, it sets us free to say: We might as well be who we really are.”

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Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy