Feminist Books Quotes

“We can deeply love our poison. We can love the taste of it, the scent of it, the comforting weight of it in our belly and find ourselves woken in the night with stabbing cramps, arms around porcelain toilet bowls, hurling every last bit until collapsing on bathroom tile, limp from dehydration. Sometimes parting with love is essential for survival. I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them.”
― Maggie Young, Just Another Number

“From my first stab at second base, I became obsessively concerned for my vaginal upkeep. I began shaving the day after I felt my first tongue down my throat. The first buzz was a disaster, causing horrifically itchy dull razor breakout that made me look like I made love to a poison ivy bush. Whenever I thought there was a chance of unveiling my privates, I smothered every breakout with the same foundation I used for the occasional teenage acne face breakouts.”
― Maggie Young

“Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.”
― Maggie Young, Just Another Number

“Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.”
― Maggie Young, Just Another Number

“I resisted feminism in my late teens and my twenties because i worried that feminism wouldn't allow me to be the mess of a woman i knew myself to be. But then i began to learn more about feminism. i learnt to separate feminism from Feminism or Feminists or the idea of an Essential Feminism - one true feminism to dominate all of womankind.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“We cannot measure what Children learn from stories and books. Any particular word or image could strike them in a way that can never be expressed. Rather than focusing on one particular moral Children should be encouraged to read passionately, with an open mind.”
― Priyadarshini, The Postwoman and Other Stories

“Malli and her best friend Ezhil would stop at the little cart every day after school. They would buy a piece of Soan Papdi and share it amongst themselves. It became all the sweeter when they could eat it with their best friend”
― Priyadarshini, The Postwoman and Other Stories

“Ms. Kalvi gave Maanvizhi a conch and told her to place it upon her ear. She promised that Maanvizhi would now be able to imagine the ocean”
― Priyadarshini, The Postwoman and Other Stories