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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2m

I, down deep in my soul, feel women are so much more powerful than men ever could be.

-- Caitlyn Jenner (MAKERS Conference interview recapping Glamour Women of the Year, 2016)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We are powerful and we know it.

-- bell hooks (Feminism is for Everybody, 2000)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Every woman who fights for herself fights for all women.

-- Betty Friedan (Speech at National Women's Conference, 1970)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Woman was the last Work of Creation, and consequently the most perfect.

-- Sophia, A Person of Quality (Woman's Superior Excellence Over Man, 1740 (circa))

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 8h

The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.

-- Anonymous (Internet meme, 2016)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Men are not necessities. They’re luxuries.

-- Cher (VH1 interview, 1996)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Girls just wanna have fundamental human rights.

-- Cyndi Lauper (adapted slogan) (Protest sign, 2017)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14h

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage.

-- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Men are so far inferior to women that they have been forced to become our flatterers, not our equals.

-- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999))

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Women must claim their power, for no one will give it to them.

-- Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider, 1984)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Men have had their chance, and they have failed; it is time for women to lead.

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics, 1898)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Woman was the last Work of Creation, and as the last, so the best and most perfect work of God.

-- Anonymous (“Sophia”) (Woman’s Superior Excellence over Man, 1739)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The world is a better place when women are in charge.

-- Emma Watson (HeForShe Campaign speech, 2015)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Woman is as much more excellent than man, as the best work of a Master exceeds his first essay.

-- Anonymous (“Sophia”) (Woman’s Superior Excellence over Man, 1739)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Women’s equality will not be fully won until the female ideal becomes the measure of civilization.

-- Margaret Fuller (Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

So what would happen if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?... Street guys would invent slang (“He’s a three-pad man”) and “give fives” … “Yeah, man, I’m on the rag!”

-- Gloria Steinem (Ms. Magazine essay: If Men Could Menstruate, 1978)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to say, ‘I have ambition, but not too much.’

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk, 2012)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Woman is the guardian of humanity’s ideals, man its destroyer.

-- Margaret Fuller (Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The future is female.

-- Gloria Steinem (Feminist slogan popularized by Steinem, 1970s)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Women are not just equal to men; in many ways, they surpass them.

-- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

It is clear that women are better than men, for men themselves come from women.

-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Strong women raise stronger societies than strong men do.

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Speech at UN General Assembly, 2014)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The emancipation of women is the emancipation of the human race.

-- Rosa Luxemburg (Speech at the International Socialist Women’s Congress, 1912)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Women are the champions of resilience.

-- Rihanna (NAACP Image Awards speech, 2019)

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The more one examines men, the more one sees their faults; the more one examines women, the more one finds their virtues.

-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))

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