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“White women will heap praise on my words calling for the destruction of the patriarchy, and then turn around and ask why I have to ‘be so divisive’ or say dismissively that I ‘sound like Al Sharpton’ when I dare bring up race.”

Book:So You Want to Talk About Race

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“Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is; I will always find a way to enjoy myself; even in the mist of circumstances; because problems is a sense of adventure in sheep's clothing.”

Happiness Success Opportunity Existentialism

Author:Temitope Owosela

“Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein's earliest and most vociferous accusers, recalled being asked "in a soft NPR voice, 'What if what you're saying makes men uncomfortable?' Good. I've been uncomfortable my whole life. Welcome to our world of discomfort.”

Feminism Anger Feminist Good And Mad

Book:Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“The Barbies with their stick legs and rocket breasts were another problem Megan had to endure. She was supposed to spend hours dressing up or playing house with them, including the darker ones she was supposed to find more relatable. In a fit she'd once tried to commit Barbicide, defaced them with colored marker pens, chopped off hair, extracted eyes with scissors and de-limbed a few... The Barbie invasion proliferated on birthdays and at Christmas, relatives talked about incredible collection, as if she'd actually chosen to have them in her life.”

Funny Fiction Feminism Diverse Books

Book:Girl, Woman, Other

Source: Girl, Woman, Other

“There's not a stratum of the world that doesn't need girls. Maybe we're devalued precisely because we're so valuable. The world is too afraid of not bein able to obtain and control us to respect our true worth.”

Feminism Women Empowerment

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that will mature in the coming years to the smoky tones of a priestess or a queen -- a woman of great natural power.”

Voice Feminism Princess Femininity Queen Priestess Empress Pitch Zenobia Natural Power

Book:Daughter of Sand and Stone

Source: Daughter of Sand and Stone

“Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the rest of the world.” Have you no kind of life where [asexual reproduction] is possible?” asked Zava. “Why, yes-some low forms, of course.” “How low-or how high, rather?”

Feminism Reproduction

Book:Herland

Source: Herland

“I don’t belong to anyone! I’m not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I’m a woman.”

Feminism Woman Belonging

Book:Ammonite

Source: Ammonite

“the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power”

Feminism

Book:The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

“Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210”

Inspirational Feminism Philosophy Of Life

Book:Sita: Warrior of Mithila

Source: Sita: Warrior of Mithila

“To truly be antiracist is to be feminist. To truly be feminist is to be antiracist.”

Feminism Antiracism

Book:How to Be an Antiracist

Source: How to Be an Antiracist

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