Best Feminism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

Feminism Strength Identity Female Feminist Woman Female Empowerment

Source: FAITH, In Stories That Change

“Did you know that attack dogs are often female? Did you know that women protect with the most ferocity in most animal kingdoms, that our teeth are for more than smiling? Us girls are many things, and weak has never been one of them.”

Women Family Feminism Strength Empowerment Motherhood

Book:Push and Pull

Source: Push and Pull

“I'm not sure how you gather such strength If you weren't my Mom, I wouldn't be the same When everything seems to go against you You are queen of the universe, a confident dame”

Inspirational Quotes Love Quotes Feminism Strength Confidence Mothers And Daughters

Book:A Candid Aim

Source: A Candid Aim

“It is not easy to be a man with growing feminism. It is ideal if women who are very successful in their careers can find a man to complement their strengths and work as a team. I think we should interview the men behind all the successful women, and find out the qualities of good men behind successful women. “Behind every successful woman is a great man.” Finding the right companion on the onset is like striking the jackpot in life.”

Life Quality Team Feminism Strength Companion Career Complement

Author:Fanny Lai

“Do not mistake me for porcelain. Do not mistake me for weak.”

Fighting Feminism Strength Serpent And Dove

Book:Gods & Monsters

Source: Gods & Monsters

“My kindness is not naivety. It is a strength not to be messed with.”

Inspirational Motivational Women Kindness Feminism Strength Mental Health Inner Strength Naivety Quiet Strength

Author:The Thoughtful Beast

“It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that.”

Life Family Feminism Strength Feminist

Book:Daisy Jones & The Six

Source: Daisy Jones & The Six

“a willingness to be vulnerable will always breed strength. And I'm not talking the kind of flex-yer-muscles, "let's go do some deadlifts bro" kind of strength. I mean an inner strength. A strength only you can see. One built through the simple joy of managing to keep the pedals turning, even when the road ahead is steep and you're always gasping for breath.”

Feminism Strength Adventure Adversity Cycling Tough Women

Author:Anna McNuff

“Today, some viewers who seek or expect constructions of female identity that cohere with expectations for a strong, independent woman who can take care of herself and save others have less patience with uncomplicated stereotypical representations of the utterly helpless female, no matter the genre. (9)”

Love Romance Power Audience Feminism Strength Independence Women Empowerment

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“[B]eing tough, autonomous, intelligent, aggressive, and rational no longer means being a man. In fact, those traits don’t even mean being masculine, at least not in the sense of bring incompatible with or the opposite of feminine. Strength and independence are not part of what many women learn, through mass media, about being a woman, in narrative after narrative. (2)”

Change Power Feminism Strength Independence

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“[A]t the same time that I sought stories of kick-ass ladies, I sought stories of love for characters that achieved success in their careers. (3)”

Love Feminism Strength Independence

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“By my early twenties, I was still devoted to heroic woman stories, but the love narratives had started to lose some of their appeal. The release of a new Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks vehicle seemed far less interesting to me than the latest installment of the Alien movie franchise. Had I lost interest in romance? Far from it. In fact, this was at the time in my life when I was very serious about finding a great love. However, I was also struggling to be my own person, to understand my identity, to follow my own dreams and start down my chosen career path. I had plans to travel the world, to attend graduate school. I was coming into—and exercising—my own forms of strength and independence. But I was tired of the one-sided representations of male-identified characters doing this, of feeling that only one version of this kind of empowerment existed. I wanted balance and social justice. I wanted to see more evidence of women on screen doing the same, women making a difference, doing something amazing, and being the heroes of their own lives and stories. Unfortunately, there weren’t very many female-bodied characters who did that who also got to find love. In fact, the more romance a woman enjoyed in a narrative, the less strength or independence of any kind she expressed in the story, especially before the last two decades. (3)”

Love Romance Power Feminism Strength Independence

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“If women aren’t giving something up for love, then their obsession for, and neuroses about, love defines them more than their career ambitions. (3)”

Love Romance Feminism Strength Independence

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“As a viewer, I was left torn, wanting the women to have it all, to not seem to be excluded if they dared to transgress the traditional female gender role, but finding myself presented with heroines who never did, who seemingly had to choose between heroic accomplishment and romance, and who made it more complicated to see these options as possible for other than the male-identified. This representational “either/or” is one more symptom of the so-called war between the sexes that continues to confound feminists about the roles romantic relationships play in our lives and even the idea of romance itself: how are we to be dedicated to empowering ourselves and others but also to find a real romantic connection if that interests us? (4)”

Love Romance Power Feminism Strength Independence Sex Wars

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“This problem—the reconciliation of feminist goals and activism with romance and its ties to narrow conceptions of womanhood—has been far from solved for feminists growing up in the 21st century, whether on screen or in real life. This problem is at the heart of my own yearnings and my attempts to find assurance and even decent blueprints in the unsatisfactory onscreen fantasies about the strong, independent woman. (5)”

Love Romance Power Feminism Strength Independence

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“There have been glimpses of alternative romance narratives—not only in niche genres or in programs with small but dedicated followings, but also in Hollywood blockbusters and primetime television—that represent an empowered version of womanhood that still finds room for intimacy, even if it is a struggle. These alternative romance narratives offer sites of potential resistance, transformation, and agency. They show us examples where feminist-friendly heterosexual intimacies are being advanced and even celebrated, where pockets of popular culture are replacing the feminist man-hating stereotype with a feminist man-loving ideal—whether the love is romantic or not—that portrays female relationships with men in ways that avoid or question the old caricatures. (6)”

Love Romance Power Feminism Strength Independence

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“[B]y the beginning of the 21st century, the fighting female capable of spectacular violence had gained a firm ground, and there were more versions of them than ever before on the big and small screens, and the number only continues to increase. Audiences growing up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, male and female, have been raised on depictions of women onscreen who could more than hold their own and didn’t need to be protected, at least no more than a man did.”

Love Romance Power Feminism Strength Independence Of Thought Violent Women

Author:Allison P. Palumbo

“Know that you are a warrior... and that a true warrior carries love, courage, and her conscience into battle, as surely as she carries her sword.”

Feminism Strength Warrior

Book:Stepsister

Source: Stepsister

“My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? But I'm a woman. I love you, I say. Whatever happen, whatever you do, I love you.”

Love Women Feminism Strength Resilience

Book:The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“Remember the most beautiful yet the most uncomfortable pair of heels you own? You feel like a queen when you wear them, almost making people look up to your elegance. While on the inside you know how you struggle to keep your toes straight, firm your ankle so it doesn't slip, tolerate the knee pain so you are standing tall! Well that's an everyday life of a strong woman, There is so much going on in the inside- no one can guess a thing on your exterior. You don't need to wear heels everyday. It's okay to be weak and vulnerable- once in a while”

Inspiration Motivation Feminism Strength Woman Heels Heroism Womanhood

Author:Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“A goal is a dream with it's work boots on.”

Inspirational Women Dreams Feminism Strength Goals Guilt Free

Book:Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

Source: Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

“White men grow on an open, level field. White women grow on far steeper and rougher terrain because the field wasn't made for them. Women of color grow not just on a hill, but on a cliffside over the ocean, battered by wind and waves. None of us chooses the landscape in which we're planted. If you find yourself on an ocean-battered cliff, your only choice is to grow there, or fall into the ocean. So if we transplant a survivor of the steep hill and cliff to the level field, natives of the field may look at that survivor and wonder why she has so much trouble trusting people, systems, and even her own bodily sensations. Why is this tree so bent and gnarled? It's because that is what it took to survive in the place where she grew. A tree that's fought wind and gravity and erosion to grow strong and green on a steep cliff is going to look strange and out of place when moved to the level playing field. The gnarled, wind-blown tree from an oceanside cliff might not conform with our ideas of what a tree should look like, but it works well in the context where it grew. And that tall straight tree wouldn't stand a chance if it was transplanted to the cliffside.”

Feminism Strength Survival Expectations Perseverance Patriarchy

Book:Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”

Philosophy Psychology Feminism Mothers Patriarchy Radical Feminism

Book:Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

Source: Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

“You bear it by working hard to get ready. You bear it by having good people by your side. You bear it by not just hoping but knowing you can handle a lot, because you already have. At least, that's what always worked for me.”

Inspirational Hope Politics Powerful Feminism Strength Powerful Women

Book:What Happened

Source: What Happened

“Men are stronger physically and mentally than women, and men have achieved great things for humanity, but men must limit their ego, and show greater respect towards women, and help women so as all together to help humanity progress.”

Justice Power Feminism Strength Equality Inequality Women S Rights Gender Equality Women And Men Female Liberation

Author:Maria Karvouni

“I'm a Queen Bitch and I've got this shit on lock.”

Inspirational Work Feminism Strength Perspective Confidence And Attitude

Author:Jolenta Greenberg

“She's strong but she's exhausted.”

Feminism Strength

Author:r.h. Sin

“A series of women's conventions in various parts of the country followed the one at Seneca Falls. At one of these, in 1851, an aged black woman, who had been born a slave in New York, tall, thin, wearing a gray dress and white turban, listened to some male ministers who had been dominating the discussion. This was Sojourner Truth. She rose to her feet and joined the indignation of her race to the indignation of her sex: That man over there says that woman needs to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches. . . Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles or gives me any best place. And a'nt I a woman? Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! and a'nt I a woman? I would work as much and eat as much as a man, when I could get it, and bear the lash as well. And a'nt I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen em most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'nt I a woman?”

Feminism Strength Slavery

Book:A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“Because she is not small. She is not weak. She will never, ever be feebleminded, And above all, she is outraged. The world will tell you not to be outraged, love. They will tell you to sit quietly, be kind. Be a lady. And when they do? Be Judith instead.”

Feminism Strength Outrage Judith

Book:Blood Water Paint

Source: Blood Water Paint

“(...) jeg står her i dag som en stærk kvinde, men uden et sværd i hånden.”

Peace Feminism Strength Female Protagonist

Author:Sara Omar

“The first time, I was very much afraid. Then I was not. And never have been after”

Fear Feminism Strength Fearless Joan Of Arc

Book:The Book of Joan

Source: The Book of Joan

“It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the truest allies, and most convinced defenders of women.”

Feminism Friends Loyalty Allies Misogyny Gay Men

Book:Die Enterbten des Liebesgliickes. Ein Beitrag zur Seelenkunde

Source: Die Enterbten des Liebesgliickes. Ein Beitrag zur Seelenkunde

“Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.”

Philosophy Courage Feminism Strength

Book:Storm and Silence

Source: Storm and Silence

“So we continued, arm in arm along the beach, talking until at last we had no more to say, like a storm that blows itself out, and our eyes dropped to the ground, where the curies were waiting for us to find them.”

Feminism Friends Fossils Fish

Book:Remarkable Creatures

Source: Remarkable Creatures

“Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.”