Mae Jemison

I advise young women: Negotiate hard and know your worth.

Today, be the basass girl you were too lazy to be yesterday.

It’s work having a vagina. Guys don’t think that it’s work but it is. You think it shows up like that to the event? It doesn’t. Every night it’s like getting it ready for its first Quinceanera, believe me.

I’m usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women’s bodies are really beginning to piss me off.

Little girls think it’s necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it’s a shame… I’m all about mystery.

I feel like it’s by design that I’m raising boys, like there’s a reason. I don’t like my sons watching Snow White. It’s totally misogynistic

Being a feminist is being equal to what a man do

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove they are worthy of a woman’s attention.

I guess that maybe breasts are the most important part of the body when you think about it, I mean without them employers just wouldn’t know who to give the smaller paychecks to.

The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

You’’re a feminist if you go to a Jay-Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’’re NOT like, ‘mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should be making 23 percent less money than Jay-Z.’

So early in our lives we are shushed. And not just directly shushed but sometimes in our lives we’re treated too preciously. We may have a father that loves us and treats us like a doll. They don’t treat us like real beings and equal partners.

[Feminism] means that you believe in the equality of the sexes in every way.

Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.