Jeyoani's quotes

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith… there is yet time.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Emancipation

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."

— Bob Marley

Womanhood

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wife, and mother of seven

Entertainment

I want you to remember the ones who have been hurt for the entertainment, the so called speech of others.

— Andrea Dworkin

Equality

And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.

— Andrea Dworkin

Festival

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

— Germaine Greer

Immature

"How could I be so immature?
To think he could replace,
The missing elements in me,
How extremely lazy of me."

— Bjork

Courage/AKA "rage of the heart"

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -- even if your voice shakes.

— Maggie Kuhn

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