“I am a strong and powerful woman.
I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman.
I am not defined by other people’s opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a woman. I determine that, not anyone else.
I am not passed up for a position, title, or promotion because I am a woman.
I fully deserve all the good things that comes my way.
Irrespective of what anyone might think, being a woman places no boundaries or limits on my abilities.
I can do anything I set my mind to.
I celebrate my womanhood and I am beautiful both inside and out.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“நிமிர்ந்த நன்னடை நேர்கொண்ட பார்வையும்,
நிலத்தில் யார்க்கும் அஞ்சாத நெறிகளும்,
திமிர்ந்த ஞானச் செருக்கும் இருப்பதால்
செம்மை மாதர் திறம்புவ தில்லையாம்;
அமிழ்ந்து பேரிரு ளாமறி யாமையில்
அவல மெய்திக் கலையின் றி வாழ்வதை
உமிழ்ந்து தள்ளுதல் பெண்ணற மாகுமாம்
உதய கன்ன உரைப்பது கேட்டிரோ!”
― Subramanya bharathi, mahakavi barathiyar kavithaikal

“I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.”
― Alessandra Torre

“Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Gingerbread
I knew I had to get out of there
before the icing cracked and they discovered
that I'm burnt around the edges,
doughy in the center,
that what they thought was sugar
is salt.

If I was a good girl,
if I could satisfy their cravings,
if every dream in my misshapen head
didn't bite, I might have stayed at the table.

Wouldn't you run, too,
from such voracious love?”
― Christine Heppermann, Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Feminism? It might change society, but it will certainly not change the man.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“The naive woman tacitly agrees to remain "not knowing." Women who are gullible or those with injured instincts still, like flowers, turn in the direction of whatever sun is offered.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“There is
a heaviness in me
worth my weight in gold,
passed over for copper.”
― Olivia Barnes, Bramble

“The definition of body is buried.”
― Stephanie M. Wytovich, The Apocalyptic Mannequin

“To My Unborn Daughter:

"You are more than feminist.”
― Tyrone Nkululeko Takawira

“Feminism was not a gimmicky bandwagon that she jumped onto the short-cut road to fame.”
― Tina Sequeira, Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories

“Yürüdüm. Gün ışıyor. Ezan. Yoldan geçen arabalar çoğaldı. Kadınlar tek tük sokağa çıkmaya başladı. Sizin kulaklığınıza, güneş gözlüğünüze, elinden tutup okula götürdüğünüz çocuğunuza kurban olayım. Girmeyin evinize. Ben sokakta tek olunca tehlikedeyim.”
― Seray Şahiner, Ülker Abla

“actually, no, i don’t take it as a compliment when you tell me
how “hot” it is that i’m with a girl. believe it or not, my
sexuality doesn’t exist to add fuel to your fantasies.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart

“Oh God, King of the universe, thank you for not creating me a man.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Frauen sind nun mal das magische Geschlecht, das die Fähigkeit hat, Leben zu schenken.”
― Marit Warncke, Der Fluch der Schicksalsrobe

“I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions. There are many ways in which I am doing feminism wrong, at least according to the way my perceptions of feminism have been warped by being a woman”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Feminism? Oh, it's totally unnecessary today. Just like seat belts and life jackets.”
― Anubha Saxena

“Feminism saved my mind.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa