“No love can surpass the love of a mother, no care can surpass a sister's care. Yet a society run by balls and bananas, makes a hooker out of our mothers and sisters.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Beauty is demonstrably a cheat code for a slightly easier life. People just a little more likely to do you a favor, love just a little easier to access, the world just a little more welcoming.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“I had been eight years old then. I had turned eighteen in January my years of performing for an audience were over.”
Source: The Kingdom of Back
“I am a Black woman. True, I have been told time and time again that my best chance of success is to emulate the preferred traits of white maleness as much as possible. Still, mine is not the image of the great leaders in our history books, nor that of the heroes in our stories. For someone like me to expect any greatness without having exceptional talent and luck was, at best, foolish and, at worst, dangerous. This is not my birthright.”
Source: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
“Wenn Frauen sich nicht unterstützen, unterstützt sie keiner.”
Source: Blaue Frau
“Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self.”
Source: The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
“Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.”
Source: Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
“There was something about girls that guys didn't have and would never have. They were amazing. Maybe one day, instead of always having to prove they were real men, guys would study women's behavior and start acting a little more like them. Now, that would be awesome.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
“It was the pornographers, not feminists, who punished women in the public square, as puritans had, for being sexual.”
Source: Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
“Although it condemns "discrimination" and advocates "freedom of choice", liberal feminism steadfastly refuses to address the socioeconomic constraints that make freedom and empowerment impossible for the large majority of women. Its real aim is not equality, but meritocracy.”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto