Nothing like a compilation of blog posts on gender issues to get one’s feminist blood coursing a little faster in one's veins!
This hand-picked baker's dozen of favourite AmazingWomenRock feminist posts from the last year or so is designed to get you thinking about, and hopefully ACTING on, gender equality issues.
More women are talking about gender issues, that's for sure. But we need more women DOING stuff to create change and make real progress.
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"If your words are not kind, honest or necessary, keep them to yourself." ~ @MomPressive
"If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011.
She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression...
Janet Guthrie (born March 7, 1938, in Iowa City, Iowa) is a retired professional race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.
Guthrie was originally an aerospace engineer and after graduating from the University of Michigan, she worked with Republic Aviation.
SheQuotes quotes women exclusively on Twitter and Facebook. This week's favourite quotes are listed below.
Get the best of SheQuotes 2011 <== Everyday Feminine Wisdom Vol 1.
If you use these quotes, please attribute them to the women who said them.
Submit your own feminine wisdom here.
"Never doubt a woman's strength, weakness is a foreign language to us." ~ @Subtrakation08