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The Loop newsletter, October 2019

By preventing mobility, you prevent empowerment, and you prevent women taking care of themselves. That’s key to independence. ― Loujain … More

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The Loop newsletter, September 2019

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged … More

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The Loop newsletter, August 2019

Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men. ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, … More

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The Loop newsletter, July 2019

A man remains a man no matter how poor his conduct. A woman, even if she were to deviate for … More

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The Loop newsletter, 16 April 2019

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off … More

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The Loop newsletter, 9 Feb 2019

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn’t afford to be. ― Barbara Smith Dear Women, Where … More

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The Loop newsletter, 8 Dec 2018

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando Dear Women, … More

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The Loop newsletter, 17 Nov 2018

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small … More

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The Loop newsletter, 24 Oct 2018

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is … More

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The Loop newsletter, 6 Oct 2018

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognising the capabilities of … More

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The Loop newsletter, 15 September 2018

If a woman tolerates this treatment of her fellow women, if she accepts it under the banner of ‘liberalism’ or … More

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The Loop newsletter, 25 Aug 2018

Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word? ― Joy … More

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Want to be kept in ‘The Loop’? Join our mailing list

We had many positive responses to the WAAC launch, with lots of women wanting to be ‘kept in the loop’. … More

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