“Ignorance, not sin, causes suffering. LIFT THE VEIL." ~ Lilli in the Great Theater” — Karen Clark Copy Share Image
“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future” — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“You nitwits think that women need alimony. They don't. They can stand on their own two feet.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.” — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.”… — Claire B. Shaeffer Copy Share Image
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have… — Lin Pardey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it." Hen reddened, then… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
“It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Now I look at artificial boundaries—lines that can stop no current of air or drought or polluted river—and mourn the violence lavished… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“We understand that being able to help dependent children find what they need can be a gift in itself. Why shouldn’t we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When girls were married they suddenly became important and relevant. Not as important as the older women or –God forbid – the… — Reem Gaafar Copy Share Image
“In my mother's time, [pain] was a secret burden, and women were admired for their ability to ignore, to be silent, to… — Terese Marie Mailhot Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Men still rule this world and as a result the world is broken. Men still hold most positions of power, men control… — Alice Feeney Copy Share Image
“Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
![“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker's…” quote by Thomas Sankara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c8/thomas-sankara-16731_basis-of-women-s-opp_the-specific-character-of-women-s-oppres_3151291.jpg)
![“How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by ignorance. I thought that if everybody knew, everything would be different. I was a silly child who believed in the revolution. [...] I can't be bought or intimidated because I'm already cut…” quote by Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fcc/andrea-dworkin-1998_children_how-did-i-become-who-i-am-i-have-a-heart_1408049.jpg)
![“In my mother's time, [pain] was a secret burden, and women were admired for their ability to ignore, to be silent, to be selfless… Now we can speak it, and that's true healing, not a problem--to admit there is some constant pain.” quote by Terese Marie Mailhot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ef/terese-marie-mailhot-281987_pain_in-my-mother-s-time-pain-was-a-secret-bu_1314864.jpg)
