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Sarah Smarsh Quotes

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“For these women, the fight to merely survive is a declaration of equality that could be called “feminist”. But here’s the thing: in my experience, right or wrong, they don’t give a shit what you call it.”
— Sarah Smarsh, Working-class women are too busy for gender theory – but they're still feminists
Tagged: Feminism In Practice, Walk the Walk, Economic Empowerment, Female Empowerment, Complicated Feminism, The Complexity of Feminism, What Is Feminist?, Gender Theory, Embodying Feminism
“That a female trailblazer in music, business and popular culture wasn’t up on the feminist conversation du jour reveals where Parton came from: a place where a woman’s strength and independence is more about walk than talk.”
— Sarah Smarsh, Working-class women are too busy for gender theory – but they're still feminists
Tagged: Feminism In Practice, Walk the Walk, Economic Empowerment, Female Empowerment, Complicated Feminism, The Complexity of Feminism, What Is Feminist?, Gender Theory, Embodying Feminism
“It wasn't that I'd landed in ruin. It was that I hadn't landed yet.”
— Sarah Smarsh, Scratch
Tagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, For when things seem hard
“The word ‘emotion’ itself comes from the Latin emovere for move away, remove, stir up, agitate. If something vexes your mind — an event from childhood, a slight by a coworker, political discourse on social media — it begs for release. That can happen without the body’s direct assistance. For those able, though, an excellent way to let go is to stop thinking and put yourself into physical motion.”
— Sarah Smarsh, The Danger of Rumination Without Release
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