"We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'"

Feminism, Power, Gender, Identity, Expression

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"We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'"

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"Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Feminism, Literary, Thinking, Woman

"A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

Feminism, Control, Beauty, Power

"Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions. We have those definitions. Let's reclaim them. We can share the simple yet powerful message that feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression."

bell hooks, American Critic

Feminism, Politics, Oppression, Equality

"As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one."

John Irving, American Novelist

Feminism, Choice, Decision, Awareness

"Lifestyle feminism ushered in a notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being slowly removed from feminism. And the assumption prevailed that no matter what a woman's politics, be she conservative or liberal, she too could fit feminism into her existing lifestyle."

bell hooks, American Critic

Feminism, Politics, Lifestyle, Identity

"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Feminism, Women, Occupation, Risk, Freedom

"Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men's world with impervious codes, may feel like dots in an uncharted territory. Discovering the crucial points, which don't line up with the unbearability of reality, may be a key to the right compass in life. ['Terra incognita']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Feminism, Women, Future, Alienation, Discovery

"Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?"

Betty Buckley, American Actress

Feminism, Help, Word

"Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Feminism, Literature, Gender, Equality

"Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?"

Philosophy

"You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far."

Humor

"And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head."

Literature

"I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for."

Romance

"I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry."

Lifestyle

"She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight."

Motivation

"I change the world, the world changes me."

Transformation

"Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. "Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't guys have to be?"

Social

"Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants."

Business

"As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure," Petra said."

Humor