Amy Richards Quotes

#1. I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.

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#2. The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.

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#3. World change comes from within.

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#4. I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

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#5. Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.

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#6. In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all.

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#7. The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

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#8. Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

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#9. [T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

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#10. As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

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#11. Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

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#12. We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same.

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#13. Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

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