Women's Rights & Issues

niyad

(113,636 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:32 PM Mar 2012

quotes for the day

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. ~Will Rogers

Tomboys are an assertion of reality, of practicality. Forced femininity is a waste of energy and resources, and therefore of oneself. Live to live. ~Morgan Torva

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem

http://www.quotegarden.com/feminism.html

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quotes for the day (Original Post) niyad Mar 2012 OP

This one is my favorite: Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #1

that is one of my favourites as well niyad Mar 2012 #2

It says volumes, doesn't it?? Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #3

Thanks for your posts praising women. One of my favorites is in my signature line. Booster Mar 2012 #4

you are most welcome. do you have hbo? they are showing "gloria: in her own words" niyad Mar 2012 #5

I don't have HBO but I'll check to see if it's offered on demand and Booster Mar 2012 #6

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)

1. This one is my favorite:

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:43 PM

Mar 2012

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr

It took me decades to learn this, and I'm still learning it.

niyad

(113,636 posts)

2. that is one of my favourites as well

Reply to Sarah Ibarruri (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:48 PM

Mar 2012

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)

3. It says volumes, doesn't it??

Reply to niyad (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:54 PM

Mar 2012

It says:

1) Get out there and carpe diem, no matter what
2) Don't let anybody's point of view get you down
3) You deserve power
4) You're not different, or inferior

And so much more!