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15 Empowering Feminist Quotes For When You're Feeling Tiny And Insignificant

Read this when you need a reminder of how strong, independent, beautiful, and bad ass you really are.
Marisa Donnelly
June 1, 2016
“I never used to be bothered by how small I was. 
Then something happened… and I was. 
Then I fell in love with myself again, and I wasn’t bothered anymore. 
I never will be again.”
— Quinta Brunson, Tumblr
Tagged: feminism, Self-Love, Loving Yourself, Self-Image, Independence
“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
— Madonna, People
Tagged: feminism, Bitch, Loving Yourself, Self-Love, Women
“Womanhood 
is learning how to witch yourself 
in slow motion. 
When they say your name
like a curse,
say it back to them
like an incantation. 
When they call you cold,
show them how you conjure fire.”
— Brenna Twohy, Tumblr
Tagged: feminism, Feminist, Women, Girls, Living, strength
“Here is how you walk away from him: you get up, flick your hair, sashay away and never look back.”
— Kat George, Here Is How You Walk Away From Him
Tagged: Moving On, Breaking Up, Exes, Leaving, Goodbyes, feminism, Self-Love
“You may write me down in history 
with your bitter, twisted lies. 
You may trod me in the very dirt 
but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
Tagged: feminism, strength, Self love, Poetry, Spilled Ink, Inspirational, Girl Power
“We call ships ‘she’. We call our machines 'women’. We compare women to black widows and vipers. And you’re going to tell me it’s not 'lady-like’ to scream, to take up space, to fight and demand respect and do whatever I want. You’ve looked at nuclear bombs and been so in awe that you could only name them after women. Don’t try to down-play my power.”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: feminism, Womanhood, Power, strength
“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
— Adrienne Rich, 'Disloyal to Civilization': Feminism, Racism, and Gynephobia,' in Chrysalis No. 7
Tagged: feminism, Female Empowerment, Female Connection, Feminist, Being a woman, Friendship, Female Friendships
“The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.”
— Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Tagged: feminism, Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman
“Life on the planet is born of woman.”
— Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Tagged: Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman, feminism, Life, Birth, Being A Mother
“The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits.”
— Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Tagged: Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman, feminism, Life, Birth, Being A Mother
“I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.”
— Adrienne Rich, 'Planetarium,' in The Fact of a Doorframe
Tagged: Being a woman, Women, feminism, Female Strength, Female Perspective, Being A Child, My Favorites
“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. ”
— June Jordan, 'Where Is The Love?' in Some Of Us Did Not Die
Tagged: feminism, Female Perspective, Being a woman, Being An African American Woman, African American Women, Female Empowerment
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
— Maya Angelou, via Facebook
Tagged: Strong Women, Female Empowerment, feminism, Being a woman, Strong Woman
“Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
— G.D Anderson, via Tumblr
Tagged: feminism, Strong Women, Female Empowerment