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#1

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
― James Baldwin

tags: empowerment, self-determination

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#2

“Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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#3

“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

tags: clichés, double-standards, feminism, gender, history, hypocrisy, men, misogyny, prejudice, slander, social-norms, stereotypes, truth, women

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#4

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women

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#5

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women

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#6

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing

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#7

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women

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#8

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights

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#9

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women

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#10

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#11

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, expectations, false-belief, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, illusions, misconceptions, misogyny, stereotypes, women

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