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... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it...

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly-girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience.

I resisted feminism in my late teens and my twenties because i worried that feminism wouldn't allow me to be the mess of a woman i knew myself to be. But then i began to learn more about feminism. i...

This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men {as readers, critics, and editors} can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.

When you can't find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example.

I hear many young women say they can't find well-known feminists with whom they identify. That can be disheartening, but I say, let us {try to} become the feminists we would like to see moving through...

Anger is always reserved for someone else. And yet, I've been in a room who escaped a war, who lost her father in ethnic cleansing, whose mother burned her hair, whose cousin raped her. 'What right do...

Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

This book is about how anger works for men in ways that it does not for women, how men like both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders can wage yelling campaigns and be credited with understanding--and compellingly channeling--the rage felt by their supporters while their female opponents can be jeered and mocked as shrill for speaking too loudly of forcefully into a microphone. — Rebecca Traister Good and Mad:...

Democracy does not speak in unison; its tunes are dissonant, and necessarily so. It is not a predictable process; it must be undergone, as a passion must be undergone. It may also be that life itself becomes foreclosed when the right way is decided in advance, or when we impose what is right for everyone, without finding a way to enter into community and discover the right in the midst of cultural translation. It may be that what is right and what is good consist in staying open to the tensions that beset the most fundamental categories we require, to know unknowingness at the core of what we know. — Judith Butler Undoing Gender

Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, 'Listen, you're not pregnant.' I said, 'Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit. — Wanda Sykes Yeah, I Said It

How proud she felt to see Esperanza so sure of herself, so intelligent, so prepared, so happy, so capable, but at the same time, so feminine and so woman in the broadest sense of the word. — Laura Esquivel Like Water for...

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

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