Queer and/or feminist quotes

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[queer-feminist-quotes]

Don't tell your daughter that when a boy is mean or rude to her it's because he has a crush on her. Don't teach her that abuse is a sign of love.

Gaysfinest

[queer-feminist-quotes]

Because women are taught to hate themselves if men reject them, and men are taught to hate women if women reject them.

Kendall, 2014, KendallMcK @ twitter

[queer-feminist-quotes]

Me watching Jessica Jones; "WTF ALL CHARACTERS ARE WOMEN, THE MEN ARE EITHER BAD OR EYE CANohh. Okay. So that's what it feels like."

Rohan, 2015, mojorojo @ twitter

[queer-feminist-quotes]

Women's bodies aren't the problem. The way that we talk about them is.

Elizabeth Plank, 2015

[queer-feminist-quotes]

This team taught all of America’s children that ‘playing like a girl’ means you’re a badass. 'Playing like a girl’ means being the best.

President Obama, about the US Women’s national soccer team, 2015

[queer-feminist-quotes]

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself... People often ask me at this age 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Gloria Steinem

[queer-feminist-quotes]

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

[queer-feminist-quotes]

[T]he understanding of the oppressed exposes the real relations among people as inhumane: Thus there is a call to political action.

Nancy Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint Revisited"

[queer-feminist-quotes]

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

[queer-feminist-quotes]

I’ll say three quick things. One, is to acknowledge your privilege. […] If you are an ally and can’t see your privilege, then you actually can’t commit to the work.

DeRay McKesson

[queerintersectional]

“When people with privilege hear that they have privilege, what they hear is not, “Our society is structured so that your life is more valued than others.” They hear, “Everything, no matter what, will be handed to you. You have done nothing to achieve what you have.” That’s not strictly true, and hardly anyone who points out another’s privilege is making that accusation. There are privileged people who work very hard. The privilege they experience is the absence of barriers that exist for other people.”

Mychal Denzel Smith (via queerintersectional)

[queer-feminist-quotes]

We have been told to live by a certain mold, women, especially women, and it's time to break it. And it is up to us to do that. Stop waiting for men to do that.

Charlize Theron, 2015

[queer-feminist-quotes]

Why do we even need to vote on things like gay and women's rights, like why are we even voting on whether or not someone gets rights or not

Myles, goldurl @ twitter, 2014

[queer-feminist-quotes]

Motherhood should be a choice and every woman should decide for herself.

Elizabeth Plank

[queer-feminist-quotes]

With regard to abortion, I accept my church's position that life begins at conception. [...] I accept it in my personal life. But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews and--I just refuse to impose that on others [...]. I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people that women can't control their body.

Joe Biden, 2012

[queer-feminist-quotes]

No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?

Shirley Chisholm

[queer-feminist-quotes]

When it comes to women's rights with respect to their reproduction, I think you should leave it to women.

Bill Nye