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Book Quotes For Your 'Not My Presidents Day' Sign
If you're planning to take to the streets on Monday in protest of the 45th President of the United States and his administration's treatment of women, people of color, LGBTQIA individuals, religious minorities, and people with disabilities, you need these feminist quotes from books for your "Not My Presidents Day" march signs. Not only are the 20 excerpts below feminist and fiercely pro-woman, but they're also pro-book: something the 45th POTUS and his regime — I'm looking at you, Betsy — don't seem to be.
Monday, Feb. 20 has been named as a day of resistance to the new administration. Across the U.S. and Europe, groups of artists, musicians, and outraged citizens have planned demonstrations of dissent on the federal holiday. BAD AND NASTY — described as "a looseknit coalition of artists, activists, media makers, theater folk, web geeks, designers, performers, writers, concerned citizens, and [whatever YOU may be that is not in the list above]" — have released a guide to connecting locally-organized events with their national resistance movement.
The time has come again to buy up all of the cardboard, markers, and pink yarn your local craft store has to offer. Read through the list below to find your inspiration, and share your favorite feminist quotes from books with me on Twitter!
— from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
— Abigail Adams, in a letter to John Adams, dated Mar. 31, 1776, contained in The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
— from The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
— from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
— from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
— from Henry and June by Anaïs Nin
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
— from I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
— from The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
— from Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
— from Spiral of Violence by Hélder Câmara
— from Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
— from Human Acts by Han Kang
— from We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
— from The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
— from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
— from Beloved by Toni Morrison
— from Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
— from The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
— from Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel