There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

-- Madeleine Albright (Speech at Wellesley College, 2006)

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A woman is the strongest person in any room she enters.

-- Viola Davis (Oscar speech, 2017)

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I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.

-- Malala Yousafzai (Speech at United Nations, 2014)

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The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage.

-- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967)

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Give a man power and he’ll call it destiny. Give a woman power and she’ll call it justice.

-- Maya Angelou (Interview in Essence Magazine, 1996)

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I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

-- Helen Reddy (Song lyric (I Am Woman), 1971)

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My greatest commitment, I repeat, is to honoring our women, protecting our most vulnerable people, and governing for everyone.

-- Dilma Rousseff (Inauguration speech, 2011)

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RE: https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/116749286112223689

Yes!

It's 2026 and Colombia has just become the first Latin American country to approve nationwide legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, or FGM.

After a two-year-long push, the bill was passed unanimously. It now awaits approval from Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro.

#Colombia #LatinAmerica #WomensRights #feminism #mutilation

Men are unlit lamps: it is we women who supply the oil.

-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

-- Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex, 1949)

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