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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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