Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. “Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love ‘ Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.’. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.” Feminist quotes for International Women’s Day. “The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Jessica Valenti, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (I know, I’m cheesy.) So the next time someone calls you emotional, or asks if you’re PMSing, call them on their bullshit.” It celebrates the beauty and strength of a black woman. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us. Phenomenal Woman By Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman is a poem written in 1978 by Maya Angelou. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. “Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.” It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength. Feminism isn’t about making women strong. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” Some of the best quotes for Women’s Day include: Well-behaved women rarely make history. I will have my serpent’s tongue-my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. “I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me 'A wise woman wishes to be no ones enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyones victim. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.” Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. “Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun ‘Your life belongs to you and you alone.’” “‘You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man.
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