“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsBelieveChildrenBodyFormThreeLosesChanceAbilityMillionsTechnologyFeminismBabyEvolutionFemaleAspectClaimsSuperiorsThirtyBreastsMakersFormulasMilkNursingThirty YearsBreastfeedingFemale Power Author:Christiane Northrup
“I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.” IfsTryingYearsBookDifferentSpeakVoiceLosesFemaleYears AgoCarolsDifferent VoicesGroundbreakingFemale Voice Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.” TryingPlayBigsFunnyPurposeLosesChancePlayerFemaleEightOlympicsInvitedScandalPicnicsAnother ChanceLondon OlympicsBadminton Author:Conan O'Brien
“I wouldn't necessarily want to be a big muscular guy. It's nice to be gorgeous whether you're male or female assuming you don't lose whatever else you have.” WantBigsGuyLosesNiceFemaleAssumingMalesGorgeous Author:Woody Allen
“You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.” ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsCharacterBodyActionFilmWinningLosesFemaleObviousFollowingGrantedLeapFemale CharactersProtagonists Author:Meryl Streep
“As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination... to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.” WritingYearsLongHardFactsProblemJobsNamesLosesResultsIssuesFrontsDemandPagesFemaleEnglandArguingTinyNewspapersDiscriminationArticlesFewerEngineersSexuallySampleWalesMaternityMps Author:Laura Bates
“In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.” IfsLosesNumbersFemaleCurrentsFallenSeatsLabourTrendsPollsCabinetsMps Author:Lucy Powell
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.” PersonsSelfLosesSelf LoveFemaleLearning To LoveSearching For Love Author:Bell Hooks