55 feminist phrases with photos to fight for equality on March 8 (International Women’s Day)

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1. If I can’t dance, your revolution doesn’t interest me. Emma Goldmann

Emma Goldman was an anarchist and suffragette born in 1869 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

When a colleague reproached her that her festive attitude did not seem appropriate for the revolutionary cause, Goldman claimed with this famous feminist phrase our right to commit ourselves to social justice without losing joy.

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2. Those who do not move do not notice their chains. Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg, a Marxist theorist known as the Red Rose, intends to express in this feminist phrase that by following the mandates of the status quo we may not become aware that such a mandate exists.

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3. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, instead of recognizing who we are. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian activist and writer, she has published three novels and the essay we should all be feminists (the renowned TEDx Talk that has had three and a half million views on YouTube) and his latest manifesto is titled Dear Ijeawele. How to educate in feminism (Random House Literature)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx Talk became world famous for appearing in the music video for the song Pretty Hurts by Beyoncé and in the performance that the same artist performed at the 2014 Video Music Awards.

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4. Feminism is the radical idea that holds that women are people. Angela Davids

Mythical philosopher, Marxist politician, African-American activist and professor in the Department of the History of Consciousness. She was related to the Black Panther Party.

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5. We had two options: be silent and die or speak and die, and we decided to speak. Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani student, activist and blogger. She won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17, in 2014. Malala is known for her civil rights activism, especially women’s rights in northwestern Pakistan, where the Taliban regime has banned the school attendance of girls.

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6. Feminism is a way of living individually and fighting collectively. Simone DeBeauvoir

Philosopher and existentialist writer, defender of human rights and feminism. Simone de Beauvoir is the author of the second sexone of the key books of feminist theory.

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7. A feminist is anyone who recognizes equality and full humanity in women and men. Gloria Steinem

Without a doubt, Gloria Steinem was the most important American feminist icon of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1969 she published the article After Black Power, Women’s Liberation.

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8. I just want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free. rosa Parks

In 1955 this black seamstress refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white traveller. The driver called the police and the woman was taken into custody and forced to pay a $14 fine. The bus incident had as its first effect the creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, for the defense of the civil rights of the black minority.

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9. The revolution will be feminist or it will not be.

This feminist slogan leaves no room for doubt: a revolution that does not liberate women is not a real revolution. We are 50%.

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10. You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. jane balvin

The American activist and humorist believes that to defend the rights of women there is no reason to go against men.

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11. When women begin to unlearn everything false that they have been led to believe, they melt into a cosmic embrace. Roy Galan

One of the strategies of the patriarchy to position itself above women is encourage disagreement between them: the classic “divide and conquer”. Roy Galán, writer and activist, suggests that the system is not interested in women being united because together they have a lot of power.

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12. The woman’s story has more to do with what was kept quiet than with what was said. Irene Munoz

The psychologist Irene Muñoz suggests that women have always suffered, forever, but that suffering has taken various forms over time. The problem, she says, is that this suffering has been silenced, disguised with all kinds of mental pathologies when, in reality, this discomfort almost always comes from social or family imbalances.

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13. There is a huge industry that gets fat at the cost of making us feel bad about our bodies. Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and feminist activist and author, among other books, of The Tyranny of the Cult of the Body (Paidós) believes that companies make fortunes fueling body dissatisfaction Women’s. It is one of the problems that emerge from the female physical representation in today’s society.

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14. Women are leading the movements in favor of the Earth. Yayo Herrero

The ecofeminist Yayo Herrero encourages us to wake up to reality and manage life with new patterns based on a fairer distribution of all available resources. In this context, she defends that heWomen are the ones who are leading the movements in defense of the Earth and to eat more naturally.

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15. Feminism allows us to separate suffering from love. Coral Herrera

The writer Coral Herrera considers that one of the most harmful legacies of patriarchy for women is the idea that women must “resist”, put up with being in toxic relationships in the name of love. feminism, according to this author, helps us become aware of how important it is to be well, of how necessary it is to take care of ourselves on a psychological and emotional level and to abandon relationships that do not suit us.

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16. Modern society has deprived women of their ability to mother. Esther Vivas

Esther Vivas, author of Disobedient mom. A feminist look at motherhoodconsiders that the system devalues ​​all tasks related to maternal experience. For this reason, he believes that it is necessary to vindicate mothers as active subjects with decision-making capacity.

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17. What for men was considered “normal” in women was considered a deviation. Lisa Appignanesi

Psychiatrist Lisa Appiganesi investigates how mental illnesses in women are diagnosed and treated. As suggested, they have been protagonists and, at the same time, prisoners of diagnoses that in each era have served as effective social control.

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18. Mature women know “what the movie is about” and that gives us an advantage. brigitte vassal

The writer and activist Brigitte Vasallo argues that when women stop being fertile, when they are no longer possible breeders, they no longer have assigned social space. It is what has been imposed socialemtne. However, she ponders, Age gives a woman immense power: that of knowing what she wants and what she does not want, what she is not willing to accept. Therefore, she encourages mature women to make use of her power.

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19. Romantic love is a castle with which women are enslaved. Maria Fornet

The psychologist María Fornet, author of the book Therapeutic Feminism (Ed. Urano) proposes to women take a transforming journey to free yourself from educational constraintss and achieve what they want.

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20. I want a world in which it is not necessary to look like the model of man for our strength to be recognized. Sol Camarena

The writer Sol Camarena vindicates feminine emotion, the express what we feel as an act of bravery. “Exposing ourselves and valuing what we feel is a wonderful path,” he explains.