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1. «There is no barrier, lock or bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind.» Virginia Woolf

2. “I will not be free as long as there are subjugated women, even if my chains are very different from theirs.” Audre Lorde

3. «I hate men who fear the strength of women.» Anais Nin

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4. «The most common way to give up our power is by believing that we don’t have it.» Alice Walker

5. «The idea is imposed on women that losing youth means losing value.» May López, author and theater director

6. «Feminism is not about strengthening women. Women are already strong. It is about changing the way the world perceives that strength.» GD Anderson, Australian activist

7. «She will rise, like a pillar of steel and roaring like thunder. She will rise.» Nicole Lyons, poet

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8. «Those who do not move do not notice their chains.» Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg, a Marxist theorist known as the Red Rose, intends to express in this feminist phrase that if we follow the mandates of the status quo we may not be aware that said mandate exists.

9. «I have a new hypothesis: it may be that I am responsible for my happiness more than I was allowing myself to be.» Michelle Obama

10. «Women’s breasts can be seen in sexual or provocative settings, but not when they are topless or breastfeeding. If the male gaze does not enjoy seeing them, then they are not interesting.»
Julia Salander

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11. «I do not want women to have power over men, but over themselves.» Mary Wollstonecraft

12. “A woman who does not have control over her body cannot be a free woman.” Margaret Sanger

13. «A woman should be two things: whoever she wants and what she wants.» Coco Chanel

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14. “No woman has an orgasm cleaning the kitchen floor.” Betty Friedan

15. «Women are the true architects of society.» Harriet Beecher Stowe

16. «The bravest act is still thinking for yourself. Out loud.» Coco Chanel

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17. «And the day came when the risk of remaining in the cocoon became more painful than the risk of blooming» Anaïs Nin.

18. «Feminism belongs to all of us and there are many of us, which implies that not all of us are going to inhabit it from the same place. So I listen and understand.» Sonia Encinas, sexologist

19. «When we are treated badly the question cannot be what do I do? The question should be how do I leave?» Maria Murnau (@feministailustrada)

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20. «The question is not who is going to let me do it, but who is going to stop me.» Ayn Rand

21. «The freedom of women is a sign of social freedom.» Rosa Luxemburg

22. «The problem was that I hated the idea of ​​serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own exciting lyrics.» Sylvia Plath

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23. «Feminism is a way of living individually and fighting collectively.» Simone De Beauvoir

Existentialist philosopher and writer, defender of human rights and feminism. Simone de Beauvoir is the author of The second sexone of the key books of feminist theory.

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24. «The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, instead of recognizing who we are.» Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian activist and writer, she has published three novels and the essay We should all be feminists (the renowned TEDx Talk that has had three and a half million views on YouTube) and his latest manifesto is titled Dear Ijeawele, How to educate in feminism (Random House Literature)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx Talk became known worldwide for appearing in the song’s video clip Pretty Hurts by Beyoncé and in the performance that the same artist performed at the 2014 Video Music Awards.

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25. «I want to be respected in all my femininity because I deserve to be.» Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

26. «Feminism is not about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.» GD Anderson

27. «We have to free half the human race to help free the other half.» Emmeline Pankhurst

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28. «I prefer a dangerous freedom to a peaceful servitude.» Maria Zambrano

29. «No one has ever achieved success without taking risks. You have to know how to recognize opportunities and take advantage of them at the moment.» Estée Lauder, businesswoman

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30. «I myself have never been able to figure out exactly what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express feelings that differentiate me from a doormat.» Rebecca West

A quote from Rebecca West full of irony about how when faced with the arguments of feminism, with the defense of dignity at its center, the lack of arguments of those who are taken for granted causes them to often resort to personal attacks, using the term «feminist» as if it were an insult.

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31. «A feminist is anyone who recognizes equality and full humanity in women and men.» Gloria Steinem

Without a doubt, Gloria Steinem was the most important American feminist icon of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1969 she published the article After Black Power, Women’s Liberation.

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32. «A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.» Gloria Steinem

25. «I know that I am a woman, a woman with inner strength and a lot of courage.» Anne Frank

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33. «If I can’t dance, your revolution doesn’t interest me.» Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was an anarchist and suffragist born in 1869 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

When a colleague reproached him that his festive attitude did not seem appropriate for the revolutionary cause, Goldman claimed with this famous feminist phrase our right to commit ourselves to social justice without losing our joy.

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34. «Feminism is the radical idea that maintains that women are people.» Angela Davis

Mythical philosopher, Marxist politician, African American activist and professor in the Department of History of Consciousness. She was related to the Black Panther Party.

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35. «We had two options: be silent and die or speak and die, and we decided to speak.» Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani student, activist and blogger. She won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17, in 2014. Malala is known for her activism in favor of civil rights, especially women’s rights in northwestern Pakistan, where the Taliban regime has banned girls from attending school.

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36. «I just want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free.» Rosa Parks

In 1955 this black dressmaker refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white traveler. The driver called the police and the woman was detained and forced to pay a $14 fine. The bus incident had as its first effect the creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, to defend the civil rights of the black minority.

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37. «The revolution will be feminist or it will not be.»

This feminist slogan leaves no room for doubt: a revolution that does not liberate women is not a real revolution. We are 50%.

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38. «You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.» Jane Balvin

The American activist and comedian believes that to defend women’s rights there is no reason to go against men.

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39. «When women begin to unlearn everything false that they have been made to believe, they merge in a cosmic embrace.» Roy Galan

One of the strategies of patriarchy to position itself above women is promote disagreement between them: The classic “divide and conquer”. Roy Galán, writer and activist,…