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meanwhilepoetry · 8 months

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Sing O goddess, of Hera's rage, how they vilified her for it, even if she was a woman betrayed. Sing O goddess, of Helen's desire, how everyone forgot she was the daughter of the most powerful God and that was what made the whole world burn. Sing O goddess, of Hestia's fires, how she left the cruelty of Olympus for a peaceful life - how she gave Prometheus the idea to steal the sacred flames for the mortal world. Sing O goddess, but not of Odysseus or Menelaus, Achilles or Agamemnon. Sing instead of women full of fire. Sing us the torch song which brings wildfire when Goddesses like you are ignored.

Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses 2

#spilled ink #greek mythology #hera #helen #hestia #greek myth #writing #poetry #words #great goddesses #poem #feminist quotes #feminist literature #feminist books #homer

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feral--bog--witch · 1 month

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I made this based on this quote:

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. - Khaled Hosseini

Its rough, I gave up after I scaled it up and it blurred but it gets the message across.

And here it is in .png

#radfems #rad fem #radfemsafe #femaleepowerment #female #radfem #radfems please touch #terf safe #aesthetic #feminist quotes #feminism

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mental-mona · 24 days

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[Image ID: a black and white picture of Clare Boothe Luce, with the text, "Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~ Clare Booth Luce April 10, 1903-October 9, 1987" /End ID]

#clare boothe luce #feminist quotes #feminism #women's history month

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profeminist · 1 year

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"A little-known feminist of the seventeenth century, Poulain de la Barre, put it this way: 'All that has been written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once judge and party to the lawsuit.'"

Simone de Beauvoir, in her introduction to The Second Sex

#Poulain de la Barre #Simone de Beauvoir #feminism #feminist #feminist quotes #french feminist #french feminism #feminist history #quotes

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birdydreamer · 9 months

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Just because you have the capacity to do something for someone, it doesn't mean you have the obligation to, especially when they won't even appreciate you for doing it.

- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao

#iron widow #currently reading #books and libraries #book blog #fantasy #strength #feminism #feminist quotes

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being-kindrad · 3 months

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You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’. —Erin McKean

#feminism #radical feminism #anti beauty culture #anti beauty industry #self love #self acceptance #anti beauty standards #pro woman #women are human #erin mckean #feminist quotes

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grungeprincess2 · 7 months

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Kurt Cobain Quotes

1. I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

2. Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

3. Friends are nothing but a known enemy.

4. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

5. If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

6. I am definitely a feminist. I'm f--king disgusted by the way women are still treated. It's 1993 and some people still think we're in 1950s. We need to make more progress. There needs to be more female musicians, more female artists, more female writers. Everything is dominated by f--king males and I'm sick of it!

7. Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

8. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

9. We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

10. I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

11. I mean, I’m definitely gay in spirit, and I probably could be bisexual. But I’m married, and I’m more attracted to Courtney [Love] than I ever have been toward a person, so there’s no point in trying to sow my oats at this point. [Laughs] If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

12. Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

13. I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

14. If any of you, in any way, hate homosexuals, people of a different color or women, please do this one favor for us—leave us the fuck alone. Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records.

15. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

16. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

17. We’re not as popular as everyone thinks, and we’re not as rich as everyone thinks.

18. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

19. Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing, and playing what you want.

20. Words suck. I mean, everything has been said. Words aren’t as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

21. I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

22. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

23. No one is afraid of heights, they’re afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they’re afraid of the answer.

24. I use bits and pieces of others’ personalities to form my own.

25. If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

26. I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.

27. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

28. You can’t buy happiness.

30. Nobody dies a virgin. Life f***s us all.

31. Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

33. If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

34. There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too f****** sad.

35. I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

36. I really miss being able to blend in with people.

37. It’s better to burn out than fade away.

38. God is gay

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subcoolture · 1 year

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Men will never understand how heartbreaking it is to realize as women that we love men who can never really love us, because they are raised in a culture that makes them unable to. That culture have made them internalize such an entitlement that it doesn’t even cross their minds that they don’t empathize with women. They feel entitled to everything, even to those women’s love whose mere well-being, safety, and basic rights they don’t even care about. And it is seen as normal that we give our bodies and souls to these men. And it is not normal: it is violent.

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kayakovicyoo · 18 days

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“If I'm a bitch, then I'm a bitch. If that's what an assertive woman is to you.” -Christina Aguilera

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miiju86 · 1 year

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#female reality #female socialization #second class citizen #systemic misogyny #systemic oppression #patriarchy #androcracy #androcentrism #womens oppression #gender is a social construct #gender is a social hierarchy #femininity ≠ femaleness #feminist thought #radblr #radical feminism #feminism #bell hooks #feminist quotes #quotes

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heterorealism · 6 months

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"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead, patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves." - bell hooks

#feminism #gender #emotional abandonment #what about men #bell hooks #quotes #feminist quotes #heterorealism #fuck the patriarchy

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bewitched-moonlight · 4 months

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« There were always in me two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning, and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest. »

— Anaïs Nin

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mental-mona · 2 months

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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself.

– Anaïs Nin

#anais nin #feminist quotes #women's history month #feminism

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gennsoup · 3 months

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My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.

Maria Dahvana Headley (trans.), Beowulf (Introduction)

#Maria Dahvana Headley #Beowulf #female experience #feminine rage #double standard #feminism #feminist quotes #Old English #Old English epic poem #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes #books #words #text

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misespinas · 2 years

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“[Woman] is held responsible for everything bad, fearful, alienating that ever happened to the fully-human-[Man]. Any assertion of female self leads to the inevitable decline of society; and when the abominable She calls attention to herself as human, not object, she violates the male's most essential sense of masculine self.

In his view, she is not a woman unless she acts like a woman as he has defined woman.”

Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981)

#women #femininity #feminism #andrea dworkin #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist theory #gender roles #quote #book quotes #woman #stop objectifying women #labels #feminist theory #gender #feminist quotes #feminist quote

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madeleineengland · 1 year

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Happy International Women's Day!

- Tár (2022)

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