THE “SKIN” OF THIS SCULPTURE HAS
QUOTES ADDRESSING FEMININITY
1. Ziad K. Abdelnour: “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”
2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."
3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man.”
4. Mark Anthony: “And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.”
5. Susan B. Anthony: “The true republic: men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
6. Margaret Atwood: “Men often ask me, 'Why are your female characters so paranoid?' It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.”
7. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn't be that women are the exception.”
8. Simone Beauvoir: “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.”
9. Beyoncé: “We have to step up as women and take the lead."
10. Shirley Chisholm: "If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
11. Laverne Cox: “I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life."
12. Bette Davis: "When a man gives his opinion, he's a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch."
13. Edgar Degas: “There are some women
who should barely be spoken to;
they should only be caressed.
Women in general are ugly.
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Women can never forgive me;
they hate me,
they feel that I am disarming them.
I show them without their coquetry,
in the state of animals cleaning themselves.”
14. Betty Friedan: "The problem that has no name—which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities—is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.”
15. Sigmund Freud asks: What does a woman want?
16. Typical Female Traits According to Freud: Passivity, Masochism, Narcissism
17. Bell Hooks: "Feminism is for everybody."
18. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House, Act III: NORA: I must try to educate myself[…]
I must stand quite alone if I am to …
understand myself and everything about me.
TORVALD: I would gladly work
night and day for you, Nora.
––Bear sorrow and want for your sake.
But no man would sacrifice
His honor for the one he loves.
NORA: It is a thing hundreds of
thousands of women have done.
19. John Lennon: “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
20. Rosa Luxemburg: "Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom."
21. Madonna: "I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
22. Henry Miller's Formula for Women:
Find, Fuck, Forget
23. Toni Morrison: "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
24. Pablo Picasso: “Each time I leave a woman,
I should burn her.
Destroy the woman,
destroy the past she represents.
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There are only two types of women:
goddesses and doormats.”
25. Anna Quindlen: “After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’”
26. Amy Schumer: “I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story—I will."
27. Coretta Scott King: “Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul.”
28. Carly Simon: “A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.”
29. Gloria Steinem: “Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'”
30. Meryl Streep: "We're here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied."
31. Sojourner Truth: "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?"
32. Rebecca West: “People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
33. Charlotte Whitton: "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
34. Mary Elizabeth Winstead: "You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.”
35. Virginia Woolf: "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
36. Virginia Woolf: “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
37. Malala Yousafzai: "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
38. Mao Zedong: "Women hold up half the sky.”
39. Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar: “I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can't be both, you've been lied to.”
THE “SKIN” OF THIS SCULPTURE HAS
WORDS ADDRESSING FEMININITY
1. Ableism
2. Accomplish
3. Agency
4. A Man’s World
5. Androgyny
6. Arm Candy
7. Avert The Gaze
8. Beauty
9. Bias
10. Bigotry
11. Binary
12. Body Image
13. Butch
14. Chauvinism
15. Chromosomes
16. Cisgender
17. Classism
18. Compassion
19. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)
20. Domestic Violence
21. Dominance
22. Equality
23. Equal Opportunity
24. Equity
25. Essentialism
26. Fem
27. Feminine Posture
28. Femininity
29. Fierce
30. Financial Opportunity
31. Fragile Masculinity
32. Freudian Analysis
33. Glass Ceiling
34. Hormones
35. Inanimate
36. Intersectional
37. Lady Gaga
38. Less Than
39. Liberation
40. Lisbeth Salander
41. Male Fragility
42. Masculinity
43. MCP
44. Misogyny
45. Miss, Mrs, Ms
46. Mobility
47. Mobility Envy
48. Nature/Nurture
49. Nausicaa
50. Normalize Sexuality
51. Obedience
52. Object
53. Old Boys Network
54. Patriarchy
55. Penis Envy
56. Phallo-Centric
57. Power
58. Power Envy
59. Princess Mononoke
60. Privilege
61. Queer Theory
62. Respect
63. Second Sev
64. Self Realization
65. Sexism
66. Sex Toy
67. Sexual Apartheid
68. Sexuality
69. Sisterhood
70. Status
71. Strength
72. Structures Of Power
73. Subjugation
74. Superiority
75. The Little Lady
76. The Male Gaze
77. Thing
78. Tom Boy
79. Toxic Masculinity
80. Vulnerability
81. Weakness
82. Womanism
83. Womanizer
84. Women’s Liberation