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Serena Williams shares an open letter to her mother about facing critique on womens bodies; something every woman has experienced. But remember girls - "We are curvy, strong, muscular, tall, small, just to name a few, and all the same: we are women and proud!" ❤❤

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Love always wins

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Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

Cheris Kramarae

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I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”

Julie Delphy, Before Sunset/Sunrise

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By the wonderful and talented Gemma Correll

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Read: Feminist Fight Club

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Parks and Rec Meme: 9/9 scenes → “I’m now gonna give you permanent answers to all the silly questions you’re gonna end up asking me and every other woman in this election over the next few months.”

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“Women, if you want to be safe, stay at home. Except that you are more likely to be killed at home by someone who claims they love you, so don’t stay at home. Make sure you don’t have a boyfriend because he’s the most likely person to kill you, but don’t go out without your boyfriend because you need someone to protect you. Don’t show too much skin or laugh too loud or dance too much but come on love give us a smile. Carry your keys and your phone at all times and make sure you run far enough to burn off all those calories but don’t do it in public and for gods sake don’t run in shorts, that’s just asking for trouble. Public transport is dangerous, but so are taxis and walking and driving on your own and did I mention that staying at home is really risky, so don’t do any of those things ok? Men, just carry on as you were, this is not your problem ok?” 

- Jane Gilmore

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“‘Trendy’ always seems like a diminishing term. It implies that it’s cool and fleeting, and that a whole bunch of people who are on the bandwagon now won’t be, down the line. But I don’t really think that that’s fair. I think that what’s happening is maybe like in the ‘70s, when a whole generation of women had a sort-of consciousness raising. I think that that’s maybe happening, finally, in our times. A lot of women who have said in the past, “Oh, no. I don’t feel discriminated against. Oh no, sexism is a thing of the past,” they’re starting to see that actually that’s not really true, that there are still very clear markers that sexism is alive and well, and that they are suffering from it. I think a lot of people who grew up not thinking of feminism as necessary are seeing that it is, and I don’t think that will go away. I think that once you do have that consciousness, it’s not a trend. It becomes a different way of thinking about the world.”

-  Cheryl Strayed Talks About “Wild,” Feminism, and How Hollywood Made Her Even Sweeter | Bitch Media

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‘Greater than’ by Della Hicks-Wilson “Who taught you that the value of a woman is the ratio of her waist to her hips and the circumference of her buttocks and the volume of her lips? Your math is dangerously wrong her value is nothing less than infinite.”

-  ‘Greater than’ by Della Hicks-Wilson

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“There are occasions that men - intellectual men, clever men, engaged men - insist on playing devil's advocate, desirous of a debate on some aspect on feminist theory or reproductive rights or some other subject generally filed under the heading: Women's Issues. These intellectual, clever, engaged men want to endlessly probe my argument for weaknesses, want to wrestle over details, want to argue just for fun, and they wonder - these intellectual, clever, engaged men - why my voice keeps raising and why my face is flushed and why, after an hour of fighting my corner, hot tears burn the corners of my eyes. "Why do you have to take this stuff so personally?" ask the intellectual, clever and engaged men, who have never considered that the content of this abstract exercise that's so much fun for them is the stuff of my life.“

-  Melissa McEwan in ‘The terrible bargain we have regretfully stuck”

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Try this: are the men doing all the talking again?

The feminist fightclub has introduced a fantastic new tool to help you check whether women get a chance to share their genius during meetings/panels/debates/etc. 

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…we’ll only really know we’ve succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn’t have to be extraordinary.

Gloria Steinem, Elle Magazine, November 2015 (via coolchicksfromhistory)

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These 25 Examples of Male Privilege from a Trans Guy's Perspective Really Prove the Point

This author shows us how many privileges he gained when he transitioned – and we were blown away by the list.

Best proof of male privilege I’ve ever seen!