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“I can’t go to school like this,” I protest, waving my hands in front of my bare chest in an exaggerated gesture. “They’re just breasts, Malena. Everyone has them.”

Book:Does My Body Offend You?

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“But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners? Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I’ve had Teddy to manage; but there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can.”

Feminism Little Women Jo March

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“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

“Stop the rhetoric that a woman is crazy or difficult. Gossip well. If a man says a woman is crazy or difficult, ask him, ‘What bad thing did you do to her?’ That’s a code word. He is trying to discredit her reputation.”

Feminism Reputation Gossip Gender Equality

Author:Natalie Portman

“Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness.”

Happiness

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“It took some time to make clear to those three sweet-faced women the process which robs the cow of her calf, and the calf of its true food; and the talk led us to further discussion of the meat business. They heard it out, looking very white, and presently begged to be excused.”

Feminism Animal Rights Women S Fiction

Book:Herland

Source: Herland

“It should come as no surprise that women need to work doubly hard to prove their right to power. They have to look to their menfolk around them who can support their claim, rather than detract from it--to their fathers and patriarchs, not to their husbands and lovers. They must clarify to a suspicious public that they are not greedy and conniving, power-hungry for their own sakes, but concerned for the success of a broad swath of society. How does one do that except by somehow downplaying their own ambition, or subsuming her power to that of a male associate, or allowing herself to be interrupted in important meetings, or apologizing more than her male counterparts, or appearing more tentative in her decision-making, or not applying for positions and promotions she might think she isn't qualified for? A woman is rarely congratulated for grasping for more, for reaching higher. Women know exactly how their ambition is perceived by the public, and they must veil their power grabs in a warm and cuddly swath of nonaggression and nonthreatening verbiage, dazzling smiles, colored hair, and a calm and steady gaze, maternal even, without holding their head too high, but not too low either. Is it any surprise that today's women don't even apply for political position of authority if they have to walk through a gauntlet of abuse dissecting their appearance, demeanor, age, weight, and sexual past white simultaneously walking a tightrope of unspoken demands for masculinization?”

Feminism Equality Egyptology

Book:When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Source: When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

“Onlar kusursuz kızlar," dediğini duyardım sık sık. "Her erkek onlarla mutlu olur, çünkü acı çekmek için yetiştirilmişler.”

Feminism Kırmızı Pazartesi

Book:Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“Just as modern science has created novel vaccines and drugs to eliminate many "natural diseases", with enough knowledge we can create personal, social, and legal environments that curtail or suppress the components of male psychology that contribute to sexual coercion.”

Violence Feminism Bias Assault Evolutionary Psychology Male Sexual

Book:When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault

Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault

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