Feminism Quote by Sarah Perry Download Open image ““Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”” — Sarah Perry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Inspirational Poverty
“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“she is all things men want to love, but could never handle.” — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“What woman could resist a handsome, wealthy, powerful, nice man who was also just a tiny bit broken inside? It meant that in spite… — Shanna Swendson Copy Share Image
“She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?” — Cecilia Grant Copy Share Image
“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.” — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“love, as their parents knew, was not enough. Hunger and poverty could never be reduced by love alone.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The point is not what I see, but what I feel; I cannot see the ether, yet I feel it enter and depart, and… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“...But doesn't it take greater strength to walk a mile in pain than seven miles in none? You are a woman, and must begin… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel them. My… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no more fixed than the… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“She'd never know what to do with children: Francis had wrong-footed her so completely that she'd come to think of them as delightful but… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“the old stories were right, she thought, and man had been first made from a handful of dust, here was Adam himself: all mud,… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you: where the knife failed, you have succeeded. He is shattered - you have turned out all his lights! You have… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“It was just the light,’ she said, ‘up to its old tricks. But how was my heart to know?” — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins… — Annastacia Dickerson Copy Share Image
“In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only… — Helen Brown Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
