Top Amy Richards Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Amy Richards Biography

Amelia "Amy" Richards is an American activist, writer, organizer, feminist and art historian, currently residing in New York. She graduated from Barnard College in 1992. Richards has appeared on Fox’s The O'Reilly Factor, Oprah, Talk of the Nation, New York One and CNN. She is a producer, having produced the series Woman, which is Emmy nominated and airs on Viceland. She is the president of Soapbox, Inc., which is a feminist lecture agency.

Read about Amy Richards in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Amy Richards Quotes

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

Equal, Linked, Ranked, Same

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.

Disengaged, Generally, Generations, Greater, Possibility

I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal. '

Father, Gay, Maybe, Mother, Parent

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

Embedded, Injustice, Motivated, Vernacular, Wrong

[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.

Lives, Notice, Our Generation, Scarcely, Taken, Water

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.

Democracy, Learning, Linked, Progress, Ranked, Truth Is

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.

Beavers, College, Guy, Righteous, Swim, Upstream

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.

Equality, Goal, Men, Remain, Responsibility

World change comes from within.

Change, World

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

Empowering, Empowering Women, Women, World

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.

Applied, Baby, Hurt, Moving, Pause

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.

Dormant, Energetic, Qualities, Quality, Smart, Thoughtful

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

Decision, Leadership, Majority, Our World, Reflect

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.

Disengaged, Feminism, Like, Overburdened, Sound, Water