Best social-justice & women 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.”

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Author:Betty Friedan

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“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

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”

Source: DAYBREAK

“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.'”

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”

“Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.”

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Book:Newer Ideals of Peace

Source: Newer Ideals of Peace

“Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”

Source: Woman and the New Race

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”

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Author:Charles Fourier

“They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.”

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Author:Bella Abzug

“The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.”

“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

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Author:Anita Loos

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.”

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Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.”

“A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.”

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Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”

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Author:Belva Ann Lockwood

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“The same patriarchy that oppresses women oppresses nonhuman animals. Farmed animals and “housewives,” “lab” animals and prostitutes, dancing bears and girls in the sex trade—all have too long been exploited by the same patriarchal hierarchy wherein the comparatively weak are exploited for the benefit of the powerful. Those who are aware of history, of patriarchy and of the feminist movement, tend to understand how difficult it is—and how important—for people to rethink basic behaviors in order to bring about deep and lasting change. We must rethink how we speak, how we spend our time, and what we consume. This is as true for fighting sexism as it is for fighting speciesism—or any other form of domination, exploitation, and oppression. We must change our lives first, and most fundamentally. I hope that readers working to improve the lives of girls and women . . . will realize that they can and must choose not to continue to exploit nonhuman animals while working to liberate girls and women.”

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Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“[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.”

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

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

“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.”

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Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

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