“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'”— Anna Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”— Anita Loos, thoughtcatalog.com
“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… A woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.com
“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”— Natalie Portman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”— Ambrose Bierce, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.'”— Clare Boothe Luce, thoughtcatalog.com
“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