![]() ![]() If you don’t like the term, change it for Goddess’ sake. “I am not ashamed to dress ‘like a woman’ because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.” ~ Iggy Popġ6. “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” ~ Malala Yousafzaiġ5. “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” ~ Emma Stoneġ4. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” ~ Madeleine Albrightġ4. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.'” ~ Erin McKeanġ3. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. Are you a feminist? Of course, you are.” ~ Caitlin MoranĦ. “What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. What does that really mean? Well, this is something every woman has to discover for herself.” ~ Luminita D. They were only meant to become the perfect embodiment of womanhood. “Women were never meant to be better than men. “We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” ~ Kavita RamdasĤ. “I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.” ~ Mary Shelleyģ. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” ~ Maya AngelouĢ. And who wants that? 40 Powerful Quotes to Help Women Regain Their Voice, Courage and True Powerġ. If a woman is not fully in her power… If her gentleness, femininity and gifts are suppressed, there can be no balance, no peace and no harmony in the world. ![]() ![]() But this, of course, is a toxic and dangerous way of thinking, not only for women, but for men and humanity as a whole. And you see, it’s ‘a woman’s job to make sure everybody is happy‘. Because if they do, they will make a lot of people unhappy. America’s period of orgiastic lynchings had begun on yonder broad savannah.“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” ~ Kavita Ramdas Empowering Womenįrom a young age, women are programmed to believe they need to play a very limited role and stay in this box that was created for them – and never dare to think, feel or try to live outside this box. In that large clump of trees, looking like wood moss from the plane’s great height, boys and girls had been hunted like beasts, caught and tethered together. Here, there, along the banks of that river, someone was taken, tied with ropes, shackled with chains, forced to march for weeks carrying the double burden of neck irons and abysmal fear. The loneliness of women who would never know appreciation or a mite’s share of honor. The terrifying moan of my grandmother, ‘Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven, feed me till I want no more.’ The drugged days and alcoholic nights of men for whom hope had not been born. The jumble of poverty-stricken children sleeping in rat-infested tenements or abandoned cars. “I had never felt that Egypt was really Africa, but now that our route had taken us across the Sahara, I could look down from my window seat and see trees, and bushes, rivers and dense forest. ![]() In the face of this contradictions she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged.” Teachers, doctors, sales, clerks, policemen, welfare workers who are white and exert control over her family’s moods, conditions and personality, yet within the home, she must display a right to rule which at any moment, by a knock at the door, or a ring in the telephone, can be exposed as false. Beyond her door, all authority is in the hands of people who do not look or think or act like her children. Yet she is raising children who will become mates. Her singleness indicates she has rejected or has been rejected by her mate. If she is unmarried, the challenges are increased. She questions whether she loves her children enough- or more terribly, does she love them too much? Do her looks cause embarrassment- or even terrifying, is she so attractive her sons begin to desire her and her daughters begin to hate her. “The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion. ![]()
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