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Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them QUOTES

Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them QUOTES

1 " I want women to feel like we are not in competition with each other. We are on
the same team. Something as small as a compliment to let another woman know she is on the right path or she is doing a great job can make all the difference. We can defend each other when we are being attacked or judged. We can hire other women and refer each other for jobs when the opportunity fits "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

2 " I want women to feel like we are not in competition with each other. We are on the same team. Something as small as a compliment to let another woman know she is on the right path or she is doing a great job can make all the difference. We can defend each other when we are being attacked or judged. We can hire other women and refer each other for jobs when the opportunity fits "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

3 " No one gains when a culture exploits itself. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

4 " I'm so excited to watch the next generation of teenage feminists make their mark on the world because I truly believe they're going to achieve extraordinary things. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

5 " My feminism is inherent. It's not a trait, adjective, label or by-line but an orientation towards the world. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

6 " In the end I think change really does begin at home, at the dinner table, in spit seconds, in quiet determined moments. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

7 " And this is when I realize that perhaps feminism isn't about being morally pure or well-liked, and is more about doing the damn thing. Maybe it's about being a women in her truth, fighting for her cause, her dreams, her vision and doing it exactly as she sees fit. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

8 " One day we're the storm, loud and unmanageable. One we're the sun, radiating light in every direction. One day we're air, breezing in and out invisibly. One day we're fire, furious and passionate. And we don't need an app to tell us when our anger is justified. Or to shave off our hair to be true feminists. Or unanimous approval to prove we're a trailblazer. Or damn underwear to declare us liberated. And we certainly don't need to devise a new set of feminist rules and specifications that tell some women they qualify and others, 'You can't sit with us. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

9 " Our bodies are life-growers by nature, tied to the moon by some invisible, yet visceral cord. We get to walk through the world in bodies that are mysterious, majestic even, and our intuition as women is pretty off-the-charts. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

10 " And feminism is one again - as Billy would say - a Thing. It's a different thing. It's not appropriated by solemn, self-righteous intellectuals. It's every woman's now. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

11 " She has been taught - by the spaces we all occupy - that the experts don't look or sound like me; that they are older whiter and male. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

12 " Build these men from scratch to fit women, rather than to take up all the space and force us to compact ourselves to the little corner allocated to us by them. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

13 " I take offense at those who want to criticize the feminist movement when they themselves have done nothing to move the needle forward on equality. I am offended by those who are nostalgic about the second wave of feminism or the first wave and claim that today's feminists aren't fighting real wars. Let me be clear: as women, as gender non-confirming individuals, our rights are under assault right this very moment. Our bodies have been sexualized, objectified, touched without our consent; our agency over our bodies is not respected. We are in a perennial state of defense because this is war being waged on us from all fronts. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

14 " I've made it my mission to be an ally to women in this generation, to break down misogynistic stereotypes, remove walls that divide them, and create a community grounded in us supporting one another. In my experience as a young women, a female business owner, a daughter, sister, and friend, I've learned the being a feminist isn't your own voice, but how you use your stage to encourage and support other women to find theirs. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

15 " Sometimes it can feel overwhelming to get involved, or like you won't be that impactful. But no matter how small the gesture, it is still powerful, and you are making a difference. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

16 " But I suppose the difference is, you hadn't felt any limitations or frustrations before that, whereas I was already angry by twenty. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

17 " Why are those characters running and jumping, and that girl character is watching and giggling at the side?
Why, when I was at school, were no celebrated scientists, musicians, or playwrights, women? Why are we only taught about the achievements of men?
Why, when women unite and come together with their voices raised, does the term 'witch hunt' get bandied around?
Why are some of my natural characteristics referred to as 'tomboy'? "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

18 " In the end I think change really does begin at home, at the dinner table, in a conversation, in split seconds, in quit determined moments. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

19 " Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

20 " We so often write about how gender limits us, whereas perhaps a better approach is to think about what we can achieve in spite of the way society limits us through its construction of gender norms. "

― Scarlett Curtis , Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them