Well-behaved women seldom make signs
Today is March Forth. (Read it again.)
Ohhh, you need feminist literary quotes that double as protest signs? Say no more. Here are some absolute bangers for your Women’s March sign—or just to tattoo on your soul.
📢 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
📢 “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
📢 “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
📢 “We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
📢 “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
— Mark Twain
📢 “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
— Coco Chanel
📢”I am deliberate
and afraid
of nothing.”
— Audre Lorde
📢 “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
— Audre Lorde (again, because she understood the damn assignment)
📢 “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
— Gloria Steinem (though technically, this one came from Irina Dunn, but Steinem made it famous!)
📢 “Neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.”
— N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Earth Trilogy
📢 “Nevertheless, she persisted.”
— Mitch McConnell accidentally writing feminist history
📢 “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
📢 “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
— Gloria Steinem
📢 “When women thrive, the earth thrives.”
— Women’s Earth Alliance
📢 “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
— Alice Walker
📢 “Your silence will not protect you.”
— Audre Lorde (because honestly, let’s put her on every sign)
📢 “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”
— Michelle Obama
📢 “Mr. Vice President, I am speaking.”
— Kamala Harris
Which one are you putting on a sign this year? Drop your faves in the comments, or add your own!
