Quotes about "Women's Wisdom"

Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against. ”

My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary. ”

Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this. ”

I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body. ”

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. ”

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls. ”

The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous. ”

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit. ”

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. ”

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. ”