Alice Donovan Rouse

37 Powerful Quotes From 37 Remarkable Women

We will not be silent! We will not play dead!
Sade Andria Zabala
March 7, 2017
“There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.”
— Rihanna, 35 Empowering Feminist Quotes from Inspiring Women
Tagged: Man's World, Smash The Partriarchy, Girl Power
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
— Audre Lorde, 35 Empowering Feminist Quotes from Inspiring Women
Tagged: feminism, sisterhood
“When a trans woman is called a man, that is an act of violence.”
— Laverne Cox, Laverne Cox at Creating Change 2014
Tagged: Transgender, LGBTQ+
“Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.”
— Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Tagged: Running Away, Embrace Yourself, Love Yourself
“I am used to being an observer.
I am used to not getting what I want.
I am used to imagining what it must be like.”
— Cherríe Moraga, Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso por Sus Labios
Tagged: inferior, Gender Norms, Minorities, LGBTQ+, Pessimist
“There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.”
— Winona LaDuke, Girl Crush: Winona LaDuke
Tagged: Resistance, Change, Activism
“What would it mean if we didn’t run from our own ugliness or each other’s? How do we take the sting out of ‘ugly?’ What would it mean to acknowledge our ugliness for all it has given us, how it has shaped our brilliance and taught us about how we never want to make anyone else feel? What would it take for us to be able to risk being ugly, in whatever that means for us. What would happen if we stopped apologizing for our ugly, stopped being ashamed of it? What if we let go of being beautiful, stopped chasing ‘pretty,’ stopped sucking in and shrinking and spending enormous amounts of money and time on things that don’t make us magnificent?

Where is the Ugly in you? What is it trying to teach you?”
— Mia Mingus, Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability
Tagged: ugly, beauty, Important, Perspective, Vanity