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
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"Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror
up to where you are bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look and instead, here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birdwings." - from The Essential Rumi Coleman Barks with John Mayne "Breathe it all in, love it all out" - Mary Oliver
"So take a breath and find out what is unsolved in your heart. Breathe in patience, breathe in love. Love yourself bountiful & send that love out. When you send love out from the bountifulness of your own love, it reaches other people. This love is the deepest power of prayer." - John O'Donohue "One conscious breath in and out is a meditation" - Eckhart Tolle "My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being." from Only Breath by Rumi Here are some of my favourite quotes from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, a classic children's novel written in 1952 about belonging, friendship, and the natural world.
"Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love. He wanted a friend - someone who would play with him." E.B. White "I don't want to be perfect. I only aim to be fearless & resilient & myself" - Charlotte the Spider "Why did you do all this for me? I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." said Wilbur the Pig.... "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing." - Charlotte the Spider And from the Tao Te Ching (the classic Chinese text written some 2500 years ago) on friendship, belonging and transformation: "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." "When I let go of who I am, I become what I might be." |