"What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is."

Feminism, Values, Respect, Women, Equality

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"What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is."

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"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

"By naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter. Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult."

bell hooks, American Critic

Feminism, Equality, Justice, Awareness, Truth

"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."

bell hooks, American Critic

Feminism, Race, Liberation, Change

"What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Feminism, Woman, Nobility, Support, Empathy

"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Feminism, Women, Speech, Freedom

"Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are perhaps the most discussed animal in the universe?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Feminism, Books, Women, Gender, Bias

"The Chorus Line:A Rope-Jumping Rhymewe are the maidsthe ones you killedthe ones you failedwe danced in airour bare feet twitchedit was not fairwith every goddess, queen, and bitchfrom there to hereyou scratched your itchwe did much lessthan what you didyou judged us badyou had the spearyou had the wordat your commandwe scrubbed the bloodof our deadparamours from floors, from chairsfrom stairs, from doors,we knelt in waterwhile you staredat our bare feetit was not fairyou licked our fearit gave you pleasureyou raised your handyou watched us fallwe danced on airthe ones you failedthe ones you killed."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Feminism, Justice, Violence, Abuse

"Feminism is for everybody."

bell hooks, American Critic

Feminism, Equality, Justice, Empowerment

"Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Feminism, Identity, Empowerment, Pride

"The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Feminism, Power, Freedom, Change

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"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway."

Philosophy

"I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn."

Mental Health

"I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart."

Thought

"I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday."

Defiance

"I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!"

Sensitivity

"I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it."

Observation

"Little bundle of contradictions."

Observation

"I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I'm a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."

Self

"It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair."

Emotion

"He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!"

Courage