These are quotes from my original site and are thus very dated, again 2012, but I thought I would leave them here. It was before my anti-racist journey. It was before I knew the problematic connotations of feminism, as a white lady movement. I like to ask people when did women get the right to vote. Most people will say or will see on google, 1919, which is wrong, because that is the date white women got the right to vote. Black women did not get the right to vote until the civil rights movement. Utah didn’t allow indigenous women to vote until 1957. Asians and Asian Americans were not allowed to vote until the Immigration and Nationality Acts of 1952 and 1965. To this day incarcerated women do not have the right to vote. I believe no one really has the right until we all have the right. The answer to when women got the right to vote is they haven’t yet.

These quotes represent my history, perhaps I will add some more recent, more compelling quotes here.

“Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.”

–Geena Davis (via Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media)

“I have no problem calling myself a feminist with a capital F. Absolutely. It’s funny how that word somehow took on pejorative connotations in the Eighties. Feminism and humanism are pretty much the same thing. There’s really no difference between the two.”

–Jodie Foster (via Dallasblack)

“There are too many stupid girls in the media. Hermione’s not scared to be clever. I think sometimes really smart girls dumb themselves down a bit, and that’s bad…I’m a bit of a feminist, I’m very competitive and challenging…When I was 9 or 10, I would get really upset when they tried to make me look geeky, but now I absolutely love it. I find it’s so much pressure to be beautiful. Hermione doesn’t care what she looks like.”

– Emma Watson (via Feministing)

“I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what’s funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don’t love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don’t want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do – go back to clothes hangers?”

– Elliot Page (via The Guardian)