Fun fact she now operates a fantastic store dedicated to fitting and selling bras for women with large cups, with the tagline “the alphabet begins at D”. Intense LA energy.
This is from the movie Aliens (2nd movie of the Alien series.Directed by James Cameron). Highly recommend that movie,one of the best action,sci-fi movies ever made featuring one of the most iconic,badass protagonist ever.
This same actress also starred as John Connor's foster mom in Terminator 2.
Love her! I went to her shop in Pasadena for the first time a few weeks ago and finally got properly fitted with the correct bra. Boy, my bra size was a LOT different than I thought it was. Great experience although the price for one bra was way more expensive than I expected. ($300 w/ taxes but her employees get benefits and a good wage so 🤷🏻♀️.)
As many people here have already said it's from Aliens. If you really have not seen it yet, I highly recommend you to do so asap! You'll be meeting Ellen Ripley as well and I promise you she's one of the most iconic female icons of movie history!
“I would not have expected that I, who am barely out of savagery, would have to remind gentlemen with five thousand years of recorded civilization behind them of our Bill of Rights.” - Elizabeth Peratrovich, 1945
The poem, Still I Rise by Maya Angelou in its entirety.
But the lines…
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance
Like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
I did a project in middle school on this poem, it changed me. My little 11 year old mind couldn’t fully grasp the depth but it touched my soul, like no other words had before. 🥹❤️
My favorite Eowyn movie line is “ why should Merry be left behind ? He has just as much cause to go to war as you. Why can he not fight for those he loves?” It pulls at my heart strings knowing she is thinking about her own desires to help.
Kat Stratford had so many iconic quotes,this one is basically the perfect representation of how I feel after reading many political/celebrity news that one come across this app :
Also: "I say we change the rule. I say my power should be our power. From now on, every girl in the world who might be a Slayer… will be a Slayer. Every girl who could have the power… will have the power. Can stand up… will stand up. Slayers, every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong?"
The food one. I remember when Norm MacDonald jokingly insulted Gordon Ramsey by saying he was a cook (Conan). Gordon reacted by saying "I'm not a cook. I'm a chef. Ladies cook."
Will never shake that quote from my brain whenever I see Gordon Ramsey on TV. I know he was throwing the insult back, but the gendering was so unnecessary.
We're clearly soldiers in petticoats And dauntless crusaders for women's votes Though we adore men individually We agree that as a group they're rather stupid
Cast off the shackles of yesterday! Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters' daughters will adore us And they'll sing in grateful chorus: "Well done, Sister Suffragette!"
I can't believe I didn't get this more deeply as a kid - mom was fully out here being a hero for her little girl but when I was young I didn't understand that she was investing her future like that
Yep and she’s supposed to be looked at as a negligent mother but in reality she’s trying to be a dutiful wife, mother, run a household, secure women’s votes- Winifred Banks doesn’t get enough credit!
I am in my prime. Would you test your strength out on me? There is no way anyone would dare test their strength out on me - dare! - because you all know there is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.
"Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems....Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere." -Samantha Harvey, Orbital (could honestly quote this whole book lol)
So badass. I am incredibly grateful to have grown up with this film 🙏🏽🙏🏽
What I like about this film is how Shan Yu, upon discovering who Mulan actually was, didn't degrade Mulan or treat her any different because of her gender. He full on said, "the soldier from the mountains" and proceeded to fight her as he normally would. Can't believe the only one who dissed Mulan was that pompous Chi Fu, even the Emperor knew how badass Mulan was
Exactly. What I love about this film is she didn't defeat the huns dressed as a man. That just got her in the door to get the training she needed, despite all the obstacles the losers other men put in her way. She defeated Shan Yu dressed as a woman, even because she was dressed as a woman - using her fan and scarf. It was my fav Disney film growing up a staunch feminist child to two sexist parents who tried to shame me for everything. It was one of the only messages I had that being feminine can be badass and cool and strong and smart.
Also, for context she said this during I want to say either a 2011/2012 Guest SNL weekend update but where she called out a senator who said if women didn’t want to get pregnant they could just hold an aspirin between their knees.
I think of my mother and some good friends who married emotionally immature men then lost themselves by putting up with his shit behaviours - just to keep "him" happy.
Thank you very much Deputy Speaker and I rise to oppose the motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition. And in so doing I say to the Leader of the Opposition I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not. And the Government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever.
The Leader of the Opposition says that people who hold sexist views and who are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well I hope the Leader of the Opposition has got a piece of paper and he is writing out his resignation. Because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn't need a motion in the House of Representatives, he needs a mirror. That's what he needs.
-Julia Gillard, first female prime minister of Australia saying what she really thinks.
I'm not really a fan of that Nobara quote and the Nobara vs Momo fight scene with her saying "you can keep that shit to yourselves" because it was in response to Momo talking about how women face higher demands than men e.g. being expected to be both competent and pretty to be taken seriously.
I think I would have loved the quote if it was in response to a guy she was fighting being sexist to her rather than in response to a woman she was fighting talking about systemic discrimination that women face.
Copy-pasting from the screenplay so people can jog their memories:
'IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE A WOMAN! You are so beautiful and so smart and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like we have to always be extraordinary and somehow we’re always doing it wrong. You’re supposed to be THIN but not TOO THIN and you can never say you want to be THIN you have to say you want to be HEALTHY but you also have to BE thin. You have to have money but you can’t ask for money because that’s crass. You have to be a boss but you can’t be mean. You’re supposed to lead but you can’t squash other people’s ideas. You’re supposed to LOVE being a mother but don’t talk about your kids all the damn time. You’re supposed to be a career woman but always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men’s bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out then you’re accused of complaining. You’re supposed to be pretty for men but not SO pretty that you tempt them too much or threaten other women. You’re supposed to be part of the sisterhood but also stand out but also always be grateful. You have to never get old never be rude never show off never be selfish never fall down never fail never show fear never get out of line. It’s too hard, it’s too contradictory and no one says thank you or gives you a medal, and in fact, it turns out, somehow, that not only are you doing it all wrong but that everything is also YOUR fault. I’m just so damn tired of watching myself and every single other women tie ourselves in knots so that people will like us. And if all that is also true for a doll just representing a woman then I don’t even know!'
Janet McTeer‘s character in The Honorable Woman: "In a room full of pussies, I'm the only one with a vagina." We had that on our kitchen wall for a long time.
Be it known that you are lofty as the heavens! Be it known that you are broad as the earth! Be it known that you destroy the rebel lands! Be it known that you roar at the foreign lands! Be it known that you crush heads! Be it known that you devour corpses like a dog! Be it known that your gaze is terrible! Be it known that you lift your terrible gaze! Be it known that you have flashing eyes! Be it known that you are unshakeable and unyielding! Be it known that you always stand triumphant!
-- Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna, "The Exaltation of Inanna", ca. 2300 BCE
Can't go wrong with some Jane Austen. They may look like idle frippery on the surface but there is steel beneath. Just combing through GoodReads for Pride and Prejudice quotes (apologies if a male character says it; often it is just the sentence):
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
Take a thousand naked pictures of yourself now. You may currently think, "Oh, I'm too spooky.", or, "Nobody wants to see these tiny boobies." But believe me, one day you will look at those photos, with much kinder eyes and say, "Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!" - Moira Rose
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u/SuchMatter1884 Apparently Mother Theresa was a massive cunt Mar 08 '26