Feminist

🇫🇷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"

Annie Besant

Politics

freethought

1847–1933

"I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal."

🇺🇸Susan B. Anthony

Social Activism

1820–1906

"The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do."

🇬🇧Dora Russell

Philosophy

1894–1986

"Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. We have not yet found the right road to conquering ourselves and our environment."

🇺🇸Dorothy Day

Politics

anarchism

1897–1980

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

🇬🇧Emmeline Pankhurst

Politics

1858–1928

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."

🇺🇸Meredith Tax

Politics

1942–2022

"Cultural products that present people who have no money or power as innately stupid or depraved, and thus unworthy of money or power, are in the interests of the ruling class and the power structure as it stands."

🇺🇸Harriet Tubman

Social Activism

1822–1913

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

🇺🇸Barbara Ehrenreich

Literature

1941–2022

"In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap — as measured by the pay — that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can."

🇺🇸Victoria Woodhull

Literature

1838–1927

"The Woman Who Ran for President — in 1872". The Attic. Retrieved July 9, 2018."

🇺🇸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"

🇺🇸Rita Mae Brown

Literature

lesbian feminism

b. 1944

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."

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

🇺🇸Audre Lorde

Literature

1934–1992

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

🇺🇸Kameron Hurley

Science

b. 1980

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

🇺🇸Mary Abigail Dodge

Literature

1833–1896

"Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest."

"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."