Tumblr could use a lot more feminism. Life could use a lot more feminism, as far as we're concerned. We are living in some scary times, especially if you are a women or person of color. We want you to fight back. So we're bringing you some history and quotes from kick ass women. And our hope is that you will be as inspired as we are. We welcome submissions and ideas.

• "I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee."
  6th May
  Source: Bella Abzug
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• "Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."
  5th May
  Source: George Sand
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• "Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come."
  24th February
  Source: Serena Williams
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• "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."
  9th February
  Source: Oprah
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• "I have never understood why “hard work” is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of “making” how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying."
  27th January
  Source: Rumer Godden
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• "I want to go on until they have to shoot me."
  14th January
  Source: Barbara Stanwyck
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• "It’s that time in your life when you literally don’t know if what you’re going to do is going to work or not, what your future is, if you’re going to make it."
  13th January
  Source: Shonda Rhimes
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• "When you’re in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don’t care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it’s over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I’m lazy."
  24th December
  Source: Diablo Cody
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• "I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries."
  23rd December
  Source: Bette Davis
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• "Take jobs where you can."
  23rd December
  Source: Anne V. Coates
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