feminist quotes

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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

- Frida Kahlo

People for the most part pass by the loveliest things in life without paying attention.

- Rosa Luxemburg

I feel at home in the entire world, wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.

- Rosa Luxemburg

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

- Rosa Luxemburg

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

- Rosa Luxemburg

The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

- Rosa Luxemburg

It is in the tiny struggles of individual peoples that the great movements of history are most truly revealed.

- Rosa Luxemburg

I want to burden the conscience of the affluent with all the suffering and all the hidden, bitter tears.

- Rosa Luxemburg

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

- Rosa Luxemburg

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

- Rosa Luxemburg

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

- Margaret Atwood

The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

- Nellie Bly

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

- Mary Wollstonecraft