#LIVING MY STORY QUOTES FREE#

'Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.' 'In my opinion, the most exciting potential of women of color formations resides in the possibility of politicizing this identity-basing the identity on politics rather than the politics on identity.'

'Maybe it just boils down to: I'm a woman who's really into her career, so I'm obsessed with the craft of my work. 'It's important to teach our female youth that it's OK to say, 'Yes, I am good at this,' and you don't hold back.”

But I say to them, 'How else did you expect me to show up?'' 'They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she's equal to them. In fact, often times, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table. Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. It has become clear that there is not nearly enough left to lose.' And yet this awful truth will not stop women from speaking, and I do not think that it will turn a movement into a moment. 'Women’s speech-and the fact that we are now listening to it-has enraged men in a way that makes them determined to reestablish the longstanding hierarchy of power in America. 'Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.'

#LIVING MY STORY QUOTES FREE#

'If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.' 'In the future, there will be no female leaders. ‘So what if I’m not a model?’ … But I was just like, ‘This is me. “That’s one of the things I have dysphoria around as a trans woman. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. 'For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech we deserve to be sexual AND serious-or whatever we please. 'I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back.' 'No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. … We're here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied.' 'You could make a case that, along with the technological revolution, the most provocative upending destabilizing thrilling change in the course of human history is that we’re finally in it. And if that’s body-positive to you, amen. I’m going to still be telling my life story through music. When all the dust has settled on the groundbreaking-ness, I’m going to still be doing this. We have to step up as women and take the lead.' 'We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history-empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.' 'Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. 'We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.' I just want to work until there are fewer and fewer ‘first and only’s.” “I’ve been in so many spaces where I’m the first and only Black trans woman or trans woman period. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop. The more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. 'There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.' “I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.” Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female.'' You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. I want to give women a space to feel their own strength and tell their stories. continue to support and take care of each other. “I want to build a community where women of all races can communicate and. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.' 'I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. 'It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.'

Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'

Living my story quotes