“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”— Warsan Shire, twitter.comTagged: feminism, Being A Female, Female Empowerment
“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.”— Michelle Obama, salon.comTagged: bullying, Manners, Class
“We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. Yes, we can do it. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; all the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we rai…”— Malala Yousafzai, youtube.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Power
“If we’re going to heal, let it be glorious.”— Beyoncé Knowles, refinery29.comTagged: Healing, Moving Forward, Survivor, Beyonce, beyonce Grammys
“i bleed every month. but do not die. how am i not magic.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.comTagged: period, menstruation, Womanhood
“Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. Only love can give us the strength to go forward in the midst of heartbreak and misery. Only love can give us the power to reconcile, to redeem, the power to renew weary spirits and save lost souls. The tra…”— Bell Hooks, amazon.comTagged: Love, Powerful, Activism, Social Change
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”— Rosa Luxemburg, amazon.comTagged: Activism, Revolution, Standing Up, Truth, Justice
“What would it mean if we didn’t run from our own ugliness or each other’s? How do we take the sting out of ‘ugly?’ What would it mean to acknowledge our ugliness for all it has given us, how it has shaped our brilliance and taught us about how we never want to make anyone else feel? What would it ta…”— Mia Mingus, leavingevidence.wordpress.comTagged: ugly, beauty, Important, Perspective, Vanity
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”— Jane Austen, macrolit.tumblr.comTagged: Education, Knowledge, Independent Woman
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”— Marie Curie, amazon.comTagged: Ignorance, Knowledge, Understanding, Science
“But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of infants, feeder of soul, body and pride of man?”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Lust, Womanhood, gender roles, Gender Norms
“Mothers don't realize, but when they put their sons and boys (even when they have grown into men) ahead of their daughters, they are leaving the most painful heartbreaking legacy: that we are inferior. That we do not deserve love as easily, and must work for it with all our blood and sweat, tears an…”— Monique Wilson, facebook.comTagged: Mother Daughter, Parenting, Motherhood, Womanhood
“And one day, you’ll wake up and realize that you are too big for your own skin. Molt. Don’t be afraid.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.comTagged: Existential Crisis
“Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.”— Janet Mock, amazon.comTagged: Running Away, Embrace Yourself, Love Yourself
“By virtue of her pen she has won her freedom. She ranges the world, free like any other human being to laugh, to scold, to say what she likes, to be what she is.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.comTagged: Free Spirit
“What I know for sure is that every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and step out and dance — to live free of regret and filled with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your…”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.comTagged: Life, Self-Doubt, Affirmative Advice
“They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.”— Brigitte Bardot, amazon.comTagged: Sin, Womanhood, Self-Love, femininity
“No human being is illegal.”— Angela Davis, cosmopolitan.comTagged: racism, Immigiraition, Refugees, Immigrants
“Now girls are often raised to see love only as giving. Women are praised for their love when that love is an act of giving. But to love is to give AND to take. Please love by giving, and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, time.comTagged: Love, Dating Advice, Love Yourself, Self-Worth
“If the state stops behaving badly, then I won’t have anything to say. Then there will be no cause for anyone to exploit anything. But if what I say is being exploited, the root of the problem is the state’s behavior.”— Shirin Ebadi, amazon.comTagged: Corruption, Activism
“Stand for the weak, for the poor, for the lonely, for the fearful, for the ignorant, and for the silent. We must not stand for the powerful only, or for the rich only, or for the arrogant only. Justice does not demand that.”— Wangari Maathai, amazon.comTagged: Standing Up, Activism
“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was,…”— Rosa Parks, goodreads.comTagged: Civil Rights, BLM
“When the United Nations refugee agency was created after World War II, it was intended to help people return to their homes after conflict. It wasn’t created to feed, year after year, people who may never go home, whose children will be born stateless, and whose countries may never see peace... And…”— Angelina Jolie, nytimes.comTagged: War, Syria, Refugees, Selective Morality
“Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does.”— Julie Andrews, nytimes.comTagged: Lady
“We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world. It’s not based on actual fact. Our heroes don’t look like Matt Damon. They look like Malala. Gandhi. Mandela. Your big sister when she stood up for you to those bullies that one time. [M]oney is the lamest excus…”— Constance Wu, twitter.comTagged: racism, Racism In Hollywood, Whitewashing, POC, Asian
“We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back! We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!”— Elizabeth Warren, time.comTagged: Standing Up, Fight Back, Resist, Resistance
“Random tip: Beware of the controlling boyfriend that tells you how to speak, how to dress, etc. You don't wanna be married to that.”— Lea Salonga, twitter.comTagged: Toxic Relationships, Abusive Relationships, Dating Advice
“I break the rules, I allow myself to step out of my comfort zone and make people uncomfortable along the way. That personal ‘rebellion’ is a form of honesty; it’s about being your most authentic self and living up to the meaning of Noor (‘Light’ in Arabic).”— Noor Tagouri, instagram.comTagged: rebel, Rebellion, Muslim, Break The Norm, Free Spirit
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.comTagged: Perspective, Optimism, breathe
“When all the public eye sees are headscarves instead of individual stories, our community is collectively tokenized.”— Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, amazon.comTagged: Muslim, Islam, Hijab