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227 Feminist Quotes

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Poetry Way Help Name
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

Oppressors Expect Extend Understanding
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what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

What Hear Voice Fury
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A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

Choice Pains Living All about
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Poetry Dream Vision Lives
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Oppression Women Ethnic Racial
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If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence.

Bring Nothing Worth Witheld
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How are you practicing what you preach—whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?

How Practicing Preach Listening
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To acknowledge privilege is the first step in making it available for wider use.

Acknowledge Priviledge Making Wider use
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If you want us to change the world someday, we at least have to live long enough to grow up!' shouts the child.

Want Change World Live long
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

One Born Becomes Woman
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

One's Life Value Others
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Oppression Creates War Exception
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That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Generosity Feel Costs Nothing
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Man Woman Enjoy Himself
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Lose Confidence Body Oneself
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Loved Admired Necessary Somebody
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Catch Husband Art Job
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Live Long enoughVictory Defeat
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Man Human being Woman Male
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Body Situation World Project
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Wish Human life Transparent Freedom
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Capabilities Clearly Manifested Realized
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Change Life Future Act now
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I could see no reason for being sad. It's just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Reason Sad Unhappy Feel
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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Women's Understanding Identify Reason
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Today Hard time Living Death
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

Some things Loved Great Given
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A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

Day Write Taste Ashes
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Abstain Politics Attitude
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

People Think Empty Fill
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Self-consciousness Knowledge Story Oneself
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

Freedom Source Values Existence
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To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.

Paint Write Falsify History
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it

Mystery Mirage Vanishes Look
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Man Attempt Accept Task
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it

Knowledge Happiness Courage Fight
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there's the true, preestablished balance.

Story Time True Balance
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Ethics Life Game Winning
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Justification Existence Indefinitely Future
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it

War Revolution Sacrifice Generation
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Child Aim Woman Value
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

World Nothing Exile Hope
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision
Will Moral Free Decision
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love

Tiring Hate Someone Love
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I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Imagine Reasons Living Find
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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Weakness Aims Man Laws
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Life Occupied Living Dying
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Realized Talking Time Short
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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Women Congress Feminists Demonstration
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