Best feminism & social-justice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.”

Men Feels Made Suffering Culture Women Enemy Feminism Bears Diversity Fellows Victim Social Justice Masculine Inadequate Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington

“I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.”

Book Social Justice Issues Written Feminism Racism Criticism Social Justice Ending Racism

Author:Bell Hooks

“Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.”

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Author:Milo Yiannopoulos

“Abortion. Feminism. Online harassment. Social justice. Women's "no"s are constantly doubted and eroded in our culture. Saying "no" and sticking to it - and, especially, doing that where other women can see it - is a political statement.”

Political Culture Justice Feminism Social Justice Abortion Online Doubted Harassment

Author:Lindy West

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'”

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

Men Inspirational Stories Motivational Interesting Feminism Diversity Social Justice Historical Feminist Opposition Emancipation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

Poetry Women Feminism Diversity Social Justice Womens Rights Venture Signing Anonymity Famous Women Wise Women Anon Female Writers

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.”

Problem Culture Black Justice Feminism Diversity Racism Social Justice Response Rational Nationalism Sexism Black Nationalism

Author:Pearl Cleage

“A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.”

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Author:Susan Faludi

“Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.”

Should Believe Social Justice Feminism Movement Position Racism Social Justice Sexism Consistently Being A Woman Classism Position Of Power

Author:Jessica Valenti

“[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest hearts may beat in girls only five feet tall.”

America Women Feminism Bravery Social Justice Girls

Book:Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

Source: Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

“Women who were lesbians, of all races and classes, were at the forefront of the radicalization of contemporary female resistance to patriarchy in part because this group had their sexual preference already placed themselves outside the domain of heterosexist privilege and protection, both in the home and in the workplace. No matter their class, they were social outcasts.”

Poverty Feminism Social Justice Classism

Book:Where We Stand: Class Matters

Source: Where We Stand: Class Matters

“From the onset, reformist white women with class privilege were well aware that the power and freedom they wanted was the freedom they perceived men of their class enjoying.”

Poverty Feminism Social Justice Race Relations Classism

Book:Where We Stand: Class Matters

Source: Where We Stand: Class Matters

“It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.”

Women Feminism Social Justice Discrimination Sexism Misogyny

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“So while my refusal to keep laughing or making you comfortable may seem like a real fucking downer, the truth is that this is what optimism looks like. Naming what is happening to us, telling the truth about it--as ugly and uncomfortable as it can be--means that we want to change. That we know it is not inevitable.”

Feminism Optimism Social Justice

Book:Sex Object: A Memoir

Source: Sex Object: A Memoir

“So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended”

Work Feminism Social Justice Feminist Antiracism Antiracist Interesectionality Sara Ahmed

Book:Living a Feminist Life

Source: Living a Feminist Life

“Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity.”

Inspirational Opportunity Change Careers Feminism Social Justice Planned Parenthood Reproductive Rights Cecile Richards

Book:Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

Source: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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