Jessica Bennett Quotes

#1. The law cannot do it for us. We must do it for ourselves. Women in this country must become revolutionaries." - Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress

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#2. Fem-i-nist Fight Club / n. Your crew, your posse, your girl gang; your unconditionally helpful professional support system; your ride-or-die homies.

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#3. That is, membership was not based on merit but vagina. Which

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#4. But those start-up founders don't hide their failures; to the contrary, they flaunt them - blogging about them, gathering to talk about them at conferences like FailCon.

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#5. Remember: white men constitute just 31 percent of the American population. There is no situation in which they should be constituting the majority of the room.

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#6. Try the following: say no to everything that does not provide something crucial in return - so no more "shoulds," only "musts" and "wants" (and sometimes even "wants" need to be cut back)

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#7. You could argue that our country was founded on a bropropriation of sorts: a white man (Columbus) and his crew (more white dudes) claiming credit for discovering a New World that wasn't actually new (or theirs). In

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#8. Recognizing sexism is harder than it once was. Like the micro-aggressions that people of color endure daily - racism masked as subtle insults or dismissals - today's sexism is insidious, casual, politically correct, even friendly. It

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#9. Imposter syndrome" wasn't coined as a term until the 1970s, but it's safe to assume women have always felt it: that nagging feeling that, even after you've just done something great, maybe you actually don't deserve the
praise.

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#10. So I stopped getting mad and started taking notes.*

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#11. long-ingrained attitudes don't just evaporate in a generation.

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#12. Writing down your successes is another method - so you can look back on them every time you
feel a hint of self-doubt coming

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