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227 Feminist Quotes

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Love Plays Power Revolution
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Hidden Language Like Moon
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good Good Manners Manners Rude
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being

Always Being Function Precedes
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Cash Divorce Everything Human
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Conformity Everyone Likes Reward
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Ask Grow Literature Live
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

Am Bull Comic Dragons
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Cash Education Name Pay
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Beautiful Became Because Compassionate
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

About Life Like Love
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Normal is the average of deviance.

Normal Average
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Approach Because Choose Comic
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Commend Good Good Taste Like
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Life is too short to be miserable

Life Life Is Too Short Miserable Short
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Book Excuses Find Like
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Creative Difficult Embrace Few
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Cat Irresponsible Life Many
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Animal Animals Conceive Convince
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Consider Did Middle Myself
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Best Category Earned Emmy
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I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Best Come General Give
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Ancient Been Day Grade
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I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

Any Assess Could Ever
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Believe Cats Cemetery Dogs
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

About Across Animal Civilizations
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Political elections are not life and death.

Death Elections Life Life And Death
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Animals Control Events Glorious
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As young people, you do not need permission to participate. You must occupy your space because there is no governance without citizen engagement and youth-led accountability.

Young people Permission Occupy Your space
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We cannot shrink the future of Africa in accepting its reality.

Shrink The future Reality
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We clearly live in an era where we have the most unequal societies of all time. The rich are becoming richer, the poor are becoming poorer.

Clearly live Societies Rich
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When injustice is perceived, young people look upon violent groups as legitimate fighters, not perpetrators of violence.

Injustice Young people Violent groups
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Africa has the wealth to invest and the clearest path to reducing inequality is investing in African youth, our most important asset.

Wealth Invest Reducing inequality Youth
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It is my duty to make sure that young people hold governments accountable for the implementation of the frameworks they signed up for

My duty Young people Governments Accountable
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I will always push for progressive, more inclusive and more empowered positions for young people across Africa.

Always Push Progressive Inclusive
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

A feminist I believe Inhabiting contractions Productive
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Essential Resist The depiction History
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Revolution Serious thing Revolutionary life Commits oneself
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

The process Empowerment Simplistically defined In accordance
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.

Never assured Justice A fight
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Hard time Accepting diversity Synonym For justice
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

The idea Freedom Is inspiring Are free
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We must always attempt to lift as we climb.

Must always Attempt To lift We climb
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Justice Individual Can't decide Civil rights
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

When children Attend schools Greater value On discipline
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change,I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

No longer Accepting The things Cannot change
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

We live A society Imposed forgetfulness That depends
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

To act Were possible Radically transform The world
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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

Great deal Progress Have laws Segregate
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