It’s International Women’s Rights Day! Relive with us the most famous feminist quotes with this selection of the most inspiring!
1. “A free woman is exactly the opposite of a light woman” Simone de Beauvoir
2. “Feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo kills every day.” Benoîte Groult
3. “No one is more arrogant towards women, more aggressive and contemptuous, than a man worried about his virility.” Simone de Beauvoir
4. “I consider myself a feminist… Isn’t that the word for someone who fights for women’s rights?” The Dalai Lama
5. “Men and women should both have the right to be sensitive. Men and women should both have the right to be strong. It’s time to look at gender as a spectrum and no longer as two opposing ideals.” Emma Watson
6. “One is not born a woman: one becomes one.” Simone de Beauvoir
7. “The admission of women to perfect equality would be the surest mark of civilization, and it would double the intellectual forces of the human race.” Stendhal
8. “What a mistake for a woman to expect man to build the world she wants, instead of creating it herself.” Anais Nin
9. “To call women the weaker sex is a defamation, it is man’s injustice to woman. If non-violence is the law of humanity, the future belongs to women.” Gandhi
10 “Don’t clear the table unless the men get up to do it too” Coco Chanel
11. “A woman who is not afraid of men is afraid of them.” Simone de Beauvoir
12. “Woman is capable of all man’s exercises except peeing standing against a wall.” Colette
13. “Women, it is you who hold in your hands the salvation of the world.” Leo Tolstoy
14. “There is no limit to what we can accomplish as women.” Michelle Obama
15. “It is through work that women have largely crossed the distance that separated them from the male; it is work alone that can guarantee them concrete freedom.” Simone de Beauvoir
16. “I’m not ashamed to dress like a woman. Because it’s no shame to be a woman.” Iggy Pop
17. “Since a woman can be a mother, it was deduced that she should be one… And find happiness only in motherhood.” Elisabeth Badinter
18. “The principle of marriage is obscene because it transforms into rights and duties an exchange that should be based on a spontaneous impulse: it gives bodies, by vowing to grasp them in their generality, an instrumental and therefore degrading character.” Simone de Beauvoir
19. “My demand as a woman is that my difference be taken into account, that I not be forced to adapt to the male model.” Simone Veil.
20. ” Because the ideal of the white woman, attractive but not a whore, well married but not self-effacing, hard-working but not too successful, so as not to crush her man, slim but not neurotic about food, staying indefinitely young without being disfigured by plastic surgeons, a fulfilled mother but not consumed by diapers and schoolwork, a good housewife but not a traditional maid, cultured but less than a man, that happy white woman who’s always brandished under our noses, the one we should make the effort to look like, except that she seems to be a lot of trouble for not much, anyway I’ve never met her, anywhere. I don’t think she exists.” Virginie Despentes
