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"Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued."
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"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be."

"Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now."

"Critical interventions around race did not destroy the women's movement; it became stronger . . . It shows us that no matter how misguided feminist thinkers have been in the past, the will to change, the will to create the context for struggle and liberation, remains stronger than the need to hold on to wrong beliefs and assumptions."

"The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human."

"I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that."

"Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N."
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"It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime."

"If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy - it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong."

"You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard."

"It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it."

"Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be."

"What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process."

"Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you."
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