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  1. When men call women emotional, they mean we feel too much to be controlled by them.

    -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Interview with BBC Woman’s Hour, 2018)

  2. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people—and better at it than men.

    -- Rebecca West (adapted) (Paraphrased from Rebecca West, 1913)

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  3. A story from Sepp Forscher on Medium
    Read “Why we cannot stop believing.“ by Sepp Forscher on Medium: medium.com/@seppforscher/why-w

  4. If men ran the world, wars would never end. If women ran it, wars would never start.

    -- Jane Goodall (Interview with The Guardian, 2002)

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  5. women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men when they feel like mommy girlfriends. (That's patriarchal behavior in women)
    because they want a man that is at home
    but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guy

    wtf

    you cannot have it all
    sorry not sorry

    get real women

  6. The defects of men are plain to see, while the excellences of women shine brightly.

    -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men (English translation), 1600 (work), 1999 (translation))

  7. The defects of men are plain to see, while the excellences of women shine brightly.

    -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men (English translation), 1600 (work), 1999 (translation))

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  8. If men be the best, why do they so often fall from reason?

    -- Jane Anger (Her Protection for Women, 1589)

  9. If men be the best, why do they so often fall from reason?

    -- Jane Anger (Her Protection for Women, 1589)

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  10. The female sex, as the more evolved, is the conservator of the race.

    -- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894)

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  11. I shall prove that women are nobler and more excellent than men.

    -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999))

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  12. Strong women don't have 'attitudes,' they have standards.

    -- Marilyn Monroe (attributed) (Attributed statement, 1962)

  13. Strong women don't have 'attitudes,' they have standards.

    -- Marilyn Monroe (attributed) (Attributed statement, 1962)

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  14. When women are empowered, the whole of humanity benefits.

    -- Michelle Obama (Speech in London, 2015)

  15. When women are empowered, the whole of humanity benefits.

    -- Michelle Obama (Speech in London, 2015)

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  16. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to say, "I have ambition, but not too much.

    -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk, 2012)

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  17. Women are the champions of resilience.

    -- Rihanna (NAACP Image Awards speech, 2019)

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  18. I have yet to meet a man who can wash a dish without making it an act of heroism.

    -- Nora Ephron (Essay in Crazy Salad, 1975)

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  19. Since men depend on us for life itself, it is obvious that our sex is superior.

    -- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))

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  20. Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance — Colossal

    A figure appears to have been subsumed by a bookcase, and another is swathed in a green sleeping…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #arthistory #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #drawing #Entertainment #Feminism #narrative #pastel #SaraAnstis #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/767460/

  21. The subjection of women has been the greatest hindrance to civilization.

    -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics, 1898)

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  22. Mich hat eine Kollegin angeschrieben: "Ich kenne das von Hella…Ich kenne Gisela, ich weiß wie das Format entstand weil ich dabei war. Mach das doch erst mal privat, denn es schadet uns Frauen." Ich finde nicht, dass totschweigen hilft. Keiner Sache. In dem Fall ist es 30 Jahre her und ich soll immer noch den Rand halten. Der Film #washabenwirgelacht läuft öffentlich im Kino. Wie seht ihr das? #nestbeschmutzer #sexismus #martinabrandl #feminism #WahrheitSagen #comedy @lenibohrmann #backstage

  23. Mich hat eine Kollegin angeschrieben: "Ich kenne das von Hella…Ich kenne Gisela, ich weiß wie das Format entstand weil ich dabei war. Mach das doch erst mal privat, denn es schadet uns Frauen." Ich finde nicht, dass totschweigen hilft. Keiner Sache. In dem Fall ist es 30 Jahre her und ich soll immer noch den Rand halten. Der Film #washabenwirgelacht läuft öffentlich im Kino. Wie seht ihr das? #nestbeschmutzer #sexismus #martinabrandl #feminism #WahrheitSagen #comedy @lenibohrmann #backstage

  24. Mich hat eine Kollegin angeschrieben: "Ich kenne das von Hella…Ich kenne Gisela, ich weiß wie das Format entstand weil ich dabei war. Mach das doch erst mal privat, denn es schadet uns Frauen." Ich finde nicht, dass totschweigen hilft. Keiner Sache. In dem Fall ist es 30 Jahre her und ich soll immer noch den Rand halten. Der Film #washabenwirgelacht läuft öffentlich im Kino. Wie seht ihr das? #nestbeschmutzer #sexismus #martinabrandl #feminism #WahrheitSagen #comedy @lenibohrmann #backstage

  25. Mich hat eine Kollegin angeschrieben: "Ich kenne das von Hella…Ich kenne Gisela, ich weiß wie das Format entstand weil ich dabei war. Mach das doch erst mal privat, denn es schadet uns Frauen." Ich finde nicht, dass totschweigen hilft. Keiner Sache. In dem Fall ist es 30 Jahre her und ich soll immer noch den Rand halten. Der Film #washabenwirgelacht läuft öffentlich im Kino. Wie seht ihr das? #nestbeschmutzer #sexismus #martinabrandl #feminism #WahrheitSagen #comedy @lenibohrmann #backstage

  26. Mich hat eine Kollegin angeschrieben: "Ich kenne das von Hella…Ich kenne Gisela, ich weiß wie das Format entstand weil ich dabei war. Mach das doch erst mal privat, denn es schadet uns Frauen." Ich finde nicht, dass totschweigen hilft. Keiner Sache. In dem Fall ist es 30 Jahre her und ich soll immer noch den Rand halten. Der Film #washabenwirgelacht läuft öffentlich im Kino. Wie seht ihr das? #nestbeschmutzer #sexismus #martinabrandl #feminism #WahrheitSagen #comedy @lenibohrmann #backstage

  27. The nobility of women is seen in their gentleness and mercy; men are marked by cruelty and vice.

    -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999))

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  28. Men are the only animal who will beat you for calling them animals.

    -- Fran Lebowitz (Interview in Vanity Fair, 1997)

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  29. I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.

    -- Malala Yousafzai (Speech at United Nations, 2014)

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  30. Men were created before women, yes; but that’s no reason for boasting—just look at the rough draft and the finished work.

    -- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))

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  31. When women demand power, men call it chaos. When men demand power, they call it leadership.

    -- Rebecca Solnit (The Mother of All Questions, 2017)

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  32. Women are not only the equals of men, but their natural superiors in virtue.

    -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, 1600)

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  33. It is we women who lighten men’s burden of living; without us, life is a prison.

    -- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))

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