Feminism

🇫🇷Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy

Existentialism

1908–1986

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

🇺🇸bell hooks

Education

Feminism

1952–2021

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

🇺🇦Oksana Shachko

Art

1987–2018

"I'm very happy about what we did, what we do, and what we will do. That's why I again say to women from all over the world, and especially from Luxembourg: Let's be together, and let's fight together!"

🇺🇸Dorothy Allison

Literature

1949–2024

"I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about."

🇺🇸Kameron Hurley

Science

b. 1980

"It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you."

"To Freud's confusion on what do women want, I would say we want to dismantle a racist and misogynist heteronormative patriarchy that sucks the life out of women."

🇬🇧Angela Carter

Literature

Realism

1940–1992

"The Scriptorium: Angela Carter, by Jeff VanderMeer"

🇺🇸Andrea Dworkin

Literature

1946–2005

"One needs either equality or political and economic superiority."

🇺🇸Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Literature

feminism

1815–1902

"In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object."

🇺🇸Robin Morgan

Literature

b. 1941

"Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations , on nonhuman creatures , and on the planet itself ."

🇺🇸Roxane Gay

Literature

b. 1974

"There is a before and an after…In the after I was broken, shattered, and silent."

"Pathology is the place where history talks with its loudest most grating voice."

"Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world."

🇺🇸Naomi Wolf

Journalism

b. 1962

"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance."

🇺🇸Susan Faludi

Journalism

b. 1959

"Warren Farrell vs. Susan Faludi" -critical examination of the differences and similarities of Faludi's "Stiffed" and Farrell's "Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say"

🇺🇸Silvia Federici

Philosophy

b. 1942

"The abstract categories of imperialism are neither exempt from the need of a foundation, nor will the fact that they are coextensive with ordinary discourse provide them with the needed foundation."

"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not - it's a visa, and it runs out fast."

🇫🇷Olympe de Gouges

Politics

1748–1793

"Article 1. Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility."

🇺🇸Audre Lorde

Literature

1934–1992

"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal."

🇺🇸Amanda Gorman

Social Activism

Feminism

b. 1998

"Kelly Tears Up During Poetry Reading From Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman"

🇦🇺Germaine Greer

gender studies

Feminism

b. 1939

"Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to."

🇺🇸Christina Hoff Sommers

Philosophy

Feminism

b. 1950

"That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men."

🇺🇸Mary Daly

Philosophy

1928–2010

"If women's subordination were really so 'natural,' it would not be necessary to insist so strongly upon it. It would seem that people would not have to be told authoritatively to behave 'naturally. p. 116-117"

🇺🇸Gloria Steinem

Politics

feminism

1934–2026

"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before."

"Constant erotic stimulation of male sexuality coupled with its forbidden release through most normal channels are designed to encourage men to look at women as only things whose resistance to entrance must be overcome."

🇬🇧Rebecca West

Literature

1892–1983

"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."