“No more starving.
No more challenges. No more fasts.
No more pills.
Food is not the enemy,
and fighting it is making us sick.
Food is the remedy that will make us well.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“We can't deny the suffering that comes with loss, but we can bend with the pain, arch our backs, and return to standing.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“I'm an adult and this is my house. I can grow what I like in my garden. Wear what I choose. What difference does it make what you or anyone else thinks of as normal? Why the f should I care if you approve?”
Source: The Change
“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.”
Source: Iron Widow
“Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“The expectation that models should change in front of people is also a way for the client to exert power. It's both a test and a reminder of your position: everyone else is doing their job; now it's time for you to do yours. The stylist, their assistant, the client or editor, the other models, and sometimes the photographer will stand right in front of you and wait as you strip. You understand that your body is a means for them to accomplish what they're here to accomplish: to make an image to sell whatever it is they're selling. They're in charge of it now, not you. (K-Spa)”
Source: My Body
“Growing up under patriarchy is a grooming process that leaves girls and women extremely vulnerable to male manipulation.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“Some of these people will act like their condemnation is in your best interest”
Source: The Intimacy Experiment
“A quel tempo aveva i capelli grigi. Non se li tingeva. Perché fingere, diceva, che bisogno ne ho? Non voglio un uomo. A che servono tranne che per quei dieci secondi che corrispondono a mezzo figlio? Un uomo è semplicemente la strategia di una donna per fare altre donne.”
Source: Il racconto dell'Ancella
“This kind of caring for oneself is not about caring for one’s own happiness. It is about finding ways to exist in a world that makes it difficult to exist. This is why, this is how: those who do not have to struggle for their own survival can very easily and rather quickly dismiss those who attend to their own survival as being self-indulgent. They do not need to attend to themselves; the world does it for them.”
Source: Living a Feminist Life