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Feminist Inspirational Quotes (6741)

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Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag
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The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage
Valerie Solanas
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It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.
Valerie Solanas
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He [the male] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.
Valerie Solanas
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In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.
Valerie Solanas
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A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.
Valerie Solanas
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As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.
Annie Besant
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Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.
Sandra Fluke
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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Mary Astell
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
Susan B. Anthony
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I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
Gloria Steinem
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It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
Vera Brittain
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Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.
Vera Brittain
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I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
Vera Brittain
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession / I am your friend, but never your possession.
Vera Brittain
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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
Vera Brittain
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However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Vera Brittain
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An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
Vera Brittain
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain
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