“The consequences of treating
generations of women as economically illiterate are that women have been unable to educate their daughters about money, women have been shut out
from one of the main sources of power in capitalist societies (money), and few girls have grown up believing that finance is a career for them.”
Source: Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It
“What fundamentally distinguishes torture, understood in human rights terms, from the events these women have described is that torture is done to men as well as to women. Or, more precisely, when what usually happens to women as these women have described it happens to men, which it sometimes does, women's experience is the template for it, so those men, too, are ignored as women are. When the abuse is sexual or intimate, especially when it is sexual and inflicted by an intimate, it is gendered, hence not considered a human rights violation.”
Source: Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
“Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me— so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins. Another meeting”
Source: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“Our bodies are everything. They are the tools our mothers and their mothers used to end wars. Women have used their bodies to demand the right to vote, the right to work, the right to birth control, the right to safe working conditions, the right to choose, the right to equal funding for sports and education, and the right to say NO. Our bodies are agents of change.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“The potential we squander by picking our bodies to pieces is catastrophic.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“Each step and every healthy bite takes us closer to well-being, closer to raw, unrepentant liberty at home, at work, in our neighborhoods, and within the confines of our own minds.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“WE CAN’T BE GOOD CARETAKERS, LEADERS, OR MENTORS FOR EACH OTHER IF WE CAN’T BREATHE.”
“Before we can make seismic professional, economic, and sociological changes, we have to squeeze out of our Spanx and remember how it feels to breathe—with sweat in our eyes, air in our lungs, and music pouring boldly from our speakers.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“When we find new, powerful, healthy ways to be in our bodies —
large or small —
WE ARE BEAUTIFUL AND FREE”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“Patience is not a lack of action. It’s a tactical technique.”