International Women's Day March 8th, 2019

Feminist Fortune Cookies
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality & full humanity of women and men.”
- Gloria Steinem

"For there is always light / If only we are brave enough to see it / If only we are brave enough to be it - Amanda Gorman

"love yourself first and everything else falls in line.  You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world" - Lucille Ball

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision - then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid" - Audre Lorde

"Does my sexiness upset you? / Does it come as a surprise / That I dance like I've got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs?" - Maya Angelou

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” - Gloria Steinem

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” - Gloria Steinem

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.” - Gloria Steinem

“ I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” - Gloria Steinem

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons...but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” - Gloria Steinem

“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” - Gloria Steinem

“In the world of the feminine, everything you feel is right.” - Mama Gena

“ Reinvention is our birthright and our obligation.” - Mama Gena

“Women are the greatest untapped resource on the planet.” - Mama Gena

“When she designs, and then lives, her own destiny, a woman naturally sets right everything wrong in our world.” - Mama Gena

“The feminine is the feeling part of us, our deepest intuition, our sense of community & connection. Additionally, it is a sense of spiritual morality and consciousness. The feminine is life. It may shock you to hear that she does not care about production, accomplishment, domination, assertiveness, or winning. Those are masculine values. On the contrary, she favours enjoyment, inclusion, surrender and sustainability.” - Mama Gena

“The world is designed to take the wind out of a woman's sails. To fill her with fear about all the ways she is inadequate. We each need the focus and determination of warrior women to fight the tide of self-hatred that comes from living in a culture that devalues us.” - Mama Gena

“I had never considered myself beautiful, but I decided that I could change my mind.” - Mama Gena

“Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book.”
- Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize, age 17

“Well behaved women rarely make history.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Anger is one of those emotions that's been long-stricken from the social palette of acceptability. Especially for women, who are taught that being angry makes you unlikeable, and being unliked is a kind of rejection from femininity itself. But a terrible thing is lost in the suppression of anger – your relationship with one of your greatest allies: Instinct.
- Toko-Pa Turner, Author of Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home