Feminism

“I think there is still a pressure to be likable, and sort of warm and understood, and men are not held to that same standard.”

“No more must we be regarded as toys – but women of foresight, strength and skill.”

“What I want people to understand about intersectionality is that it is a way of seeing; it’s a prism that can inform advocacy, policy, and everyday practice in a way that encourages more equitable futures.”

“My victory is not a victory only for women. It is for God and for the whole society.”

“If the men of Asante will not go forward, then we will. We women will. I shall call upon my fellow women.”

“As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“Only the Black Woman can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.””

“I have never separated women's liberation from the liberation of my country.”

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”

“I would never use my femininity to get a story that a man could not get.”

“This question and that of the rights of women are one and the same. I will support them both.”

“I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight until the last of us falls in the battlefields.”

“Keinginanku sebenarnya bukanlah sekedar meminta ruang kaum ibu dalam surat kabar Oetusan Melajoe yang bapak pimpin, tetapi ... penerbitan yang istimewa untuk kaum perempuan.”

“This is not an empowerment. It is denial.”

““Everybody always tries to pit women against each other. But I feel like we’re so different.””

“No! Emancipate her then!”

“A group of women led him to put “women in theology” on the agenda.”

“Liberate yourself before you liberate me!”