“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.com
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”— Roseanne Barr, books.google.com
“Dear Friends, on the 9th of October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims an…”— Malala Yousafzai, un.org
“Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”— G.D Anderson, fandomsandfeminism.tumblr.com
“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”— Malala Yousafzai, un.org
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”— Maya Angelou, facebook.com
“The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”— Anita Loos, writersalmanac.org
“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”— June Jordan, amazon.com
“The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com