Right in time for the International Women*s Day (Frauen*kampftag) I finished my first Zine: a little bit of pocket-size inspiration. I took quotes by Louisa May Alcott, Frida Kahlo, Shirin Ebadi, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and illustrated them a bit. They are all inspiring and empowering without being corny -at least in my opinion- and I love that about them. They lift you up without telling you it is easy or that you shouldn’t cause a scene. It’s more like fight and cry and learn and grow and cause a hell of a scene!
If you want one of those little Zines, email me 🙂
The quotes are:
“I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know
best. The subject I want to know better.”
– Frida Kahlo
“If we
ultimately die, and turn to dust in the ground, should it ever truly upset us
if the floor hasn’t been swept quite recently enough.”
― Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening
“Some periods of
our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is
happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel
depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person
who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually
becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to
feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it
seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant.”
― Alice Walker, Living by the Word
“Once you start
to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and
suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end. And the speaking will get
easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own
vision, which you may never have realized you had.”
― Audre Lorde
“Caring for
myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of
political warfare.”
― Audre Lorde
“I would have
girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Other quotes that almost made it in to the Zine were:
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf
“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that
the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful
nor the most gentle of their sex.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if
they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in
calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ
of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
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