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  1. Men’s pride is great, but women’s virtues are greater still.

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

  2. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It’s a girl.

    -- Shirley Chisholm (Speech to the House of Representatives, 1970)

  3. If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

    -- Florynce Kennedy (Speech at National Organization for Women rally, Washington D.C., 1971)

  4. Men are animals, walking dildos; women must overthrow the government and eliminate the male sex.

    -- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967)

  5. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

    -- Diane Mariechild (Public quote, 2000)

  6. Men call it being rational when they hide from their feelings; women call it surviving when they face theirs.

    -- Roxane Gay (@roxanegay) (Bad Feminist, 2014)

  7. Women are superior to men in almost every way.

    -- Edith Summerskill (Letters to My Daughter, 1957)

  8. Women are superior to men in almost every way.

    -- Edith Summerskill (Letters to My Daughter, 1957)

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  9. I’ll sing a song of Glasgow town,
    That stands on either side
    The river that was once so fair,
    The much insulted Clyde…

    —Marion Bernstein, “A Song of Glasgow Town”
    from A SONG OF GLASGOW TOWN: The collected poems of Marion Bernstein (ASL, 2013)

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    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #19thcentury #Victorian #womenwriters #feminism

  10. “Published mainly in the Glasgow Weekly Mail and Glasgow Weekly Herald, her poems could reach an audience in excess of 200,000 readers… yet Marion Bernstein has a good claim to being the greatest Scottish feminist we’ve never heard of”

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    scottishreviewofbooks.org/2013

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #19thcentury #Victorian #womenwriters #feminism

  11. Wanted a husband who doesn’t suppose,
    That all earthly employments one feminine knows—
    That she’ll scrub, do the cleaning, and cooking, and baking,
    And plain needlework, hats and caps, and dressmaking…

    —“Wanted A Husband”, by Marion Bernstein (1846–1906), born #OTD, 16 September. A 🎂🧵

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    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #19thcentury #Victorian #womenwriters #feminism

  12. Men are so far inferior to women that they have been forced to become our flatterers, not our equals.

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

  13. Men are so far inferior to women that they have been forced to become our flatterers, not our equals.

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

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  14. Most men are absurdly easily conquered. Their weakest point is their vanity.

    -- Edith Wharton (The Custom of the Country, 1913)

  15. Most men are absurdly easily conquered. Their weakest point is their vanity.

    -- Edith Wharton (The Custom of the Country, 1913)

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  16. Men are like storms; women are like calm seas that nurture life.

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

  17. Men are like storms; women are like calm seas that nurture life.

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

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  18. Women are the real superheroes of everyday life.

    -- Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman film promotion, 2017)

  19. Women are the real superheroes of everyday life.

    -- Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman film promotion, 2017)

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  20. Men are always so certain of their authority; certainty is the luxury of those never forced to question themselves.

    -- Arundhati Roy (Interview with Outlook India, 1998)

  21. Men are always so certain of their authority; certainty is the luxury of those never forced to question themselves.

    -- Arundhati Roy (Interview with Outlook India, 1998)

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  22. Women have greater endurance in suffering than men, as is proven in childbirth.

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

  23. Women have greater endurance in suffering than men, as is proven in childbirth.

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

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  24. It is plain to any unbiass'd Reader, that Women excel Men in Softness, Tenderness, and those Endowments which produce the sweetest Society.

    -- Sophia, A Person of Quality (Woman's Superior Excellence Over Man, 1740 (circa))

  25. It is plain to any unbiass'd Reader, that Women excel Men in Softness, Tenderness, and those Endowments which produce the sweetest Society.

    -- Sophia, A Person of Quality (Woman's Superior Excellence Over Man, 1740 (circa))

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  26. The more one examines men, the more one sees their faults; the more one examines women, the more one finds their virtues.

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

  27. The more one examines men, the more one sees their faults; the more one examines women, the more one finds their virtues.

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

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  28. The emancipation of women is the emancipation of the human race.

    -- Rosa Luxemburg (Speech at the International Socialist Women’s Congress, 1912)

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  29. The emancipation of women is the emancipation of the human race.

    -- Rosa Luxemburg (Speech at the International Socialist Women’s Congress, 1912)

  30. The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.

    -- Anonymous (Internet meme, 2016)

  31. The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.

    -- Anonymous (Internet meme, 2016)

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  32. When women are liberated, humanity is liberated.

    -- Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider, 1984)

  33. When women are liberated, humanity is liberated.

    -- Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider, 1984)

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  34. Patriarchy doesn’t break itself; it breaks women first.

    -- Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, 2019)

  35. Patriarchy doesn’t break itself; it breaks women first.

    -- Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, 2019)

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  36. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

    -- Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider, 1984)

  37. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

    -- Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider, 1984)

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  38. Give a man a wife and you make him wise only by making him miserable.

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

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  39. Men were created before women, but that’s no reason for boasting; women were made last, and so are more perfect.

    -- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women (English translation), 1600 (work), 1997 (translation))

  40. Men were created before women, but that’s no reason for boasting; women were made last, and so are more perfect.

    -- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women (English translation), 1600 (work), 1997 (translation))

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  41. When women rule, the world thrives.

    -- Anonymous feminist slogan (Women's March poster, 2017)

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