“People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.”— Joan Jett, thoughtcatalog.com
“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.com
“The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.”— Lori Ziganto, thoughtcatalog.com
“But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.”— Miriam Toews, thoughtcatalog.com
“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”— Sally Klempton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.”— Sonia Johnson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.”— Toni Morrison, thoughtcatalog.com
“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”— Sue Monk Kidd, thoughtcatalog.com
“The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.”— Vanessa Carlton, thoughtcatalog.com
“There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.”— Susan B Anthony, thoughtcatalog.com
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, thoughtcatalog.com
“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue—that I had to do the job myself.”— Anaïs Nin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.”— Dolly Parton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”— Simone de Beauvoir, thoughtcatalog.com
“There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.”— Gloria Allred, thoughtcatalog.com
“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”— Rebecca West, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, thoughtcatalog.com