20 Feminist Quotes Everyone Needs to Hear
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20 Feminist Quotes Everyone Needs to Hear

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.” -Bell Hooks

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20 Feminist Quotes Everyone Needs to Hear
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Equality with race and women are fights that have been fought for centuries. Without fighting for one, you can't fight for the other. Here are 20 quotes from some of the most influential feminists.

1. "For most of history Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf



2."A woman must not depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself." - Susan B. Anthony

3. “All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights, the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered, it leads to a better society.” - John Legend


4. "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 Albright


5. "We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." - Malala Yousafzai


6. "Culture does not make people, people make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it out culture." -Ngozi Adichie






7. "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I'm changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis

8. "We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men." - Emma Watson


9. "Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength." - G.D. Anderson

10. "If all girls were taught how to love each other fiercely instead of how to compete with each other and hate their own bodies, what a different and beautiful world we would live in." - Nikita Gill

11. "I like stories where women save themselves." - Neil Gaiman







12. Men don't age better than women. They're just allowed to age." -Carrie Fisher







13. "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." -Mary Wollstonecraft






14. Women are not an interest group. They are mothers, and daughters, and sisters, and wives. They are half of this country and they are perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health." -Barack Obama







15. “When women are empowered, they immeasurably improve the lives of everyone around them—their families, their communities, and their countries. This is not just about women; we men need to recognize the part we play too. Real men treat women with dignity and give them the respect they deserve.” -Prince Harry





16. "We need to stop buying into the myth of gender equality. It isn't a reality yet." -Beyonce


17. "Well behaved women rarely make history." -Eleanor Roosevelt








18. “I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.” -Roxanne Gay


19. “So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously.” -Erin Wunker




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