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January is still here, with the promise of year long reading. Here are 15 feminist quotes by women authors from books that you might want to check out.
I’m what could be called a bookworm. I call myself a lover of books. My idea of a good time is to curl up with a good book, and I often use my breaks from study to catch up with my reading. I am also a feminist teenager, and an ideal world would be one where people can exercise their choice, where your voice does not go unheard!
Here are 15 quotes by women authors that I would tag as feminist – they are as varied as a feminist world would be, without sticking to the danger of a single story!
“I should have thought,” said Fanny, after a pause of recollection and exertion, “that every woman must have felt the possibility of a man’s not being approved, not being loved by some one of her sex at least, let him be ever so generally agreeable. Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself. —Jane Austen, Manfield Park
“So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.” Tina Fey, Bossypants
“Something had to change. Perhaps before the girls could learn to be princesses, Miri needed to teach them how to be bandits.” —Shannon Hale, The Forgotten Sisters
“You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won’t work. You’ll just end up missing the life you have.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, “Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?” ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
“If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Some bitter boys reading this might accuse me of “friend-zoning,” but I’d like to say that even if a girl has misinterpreted a situation that someone else thinks was obvious, she does not owe her male friends anything.” ― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
“Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion… 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.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary Of A Young Girl
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn’t be this big awkward thing whether you’re straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I’m just saying.” ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“Let’s get this straight once and for all. It’s none of your business who I go out with or what I do with them.” — J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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