Angry Women Quotes

“Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We speak of men and their rage as if it I laudable. "Men just get mad and push each other and it's over", we say. "Women are just bitches; they never let it go." That's because we never can let it go. Because where would we put it? What system? What faith? What institution has room? Has patience? Has understanding for an angry woman?”
― Lyz Lenz, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Anger is always reserved for someone else. And yet, I've been in a room with a woman who escaped a war, who lost her father in ethnic cleansing, whose mother burned her hair, whose cousin raped her. "What right do I have to be angry, when I'm alive? she said.

Anger is a privilege of the truly broken, and yet I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry. An angry woman must answer for herself. The reasons for her anger must be picked over, examined, and debated. My anger must stand the scrutiny of the court of law, of evidentiary procedures. I must prove it comes from somewhere justified and not just because one time some man touched my sister. Or because one time some man touched some woman and will continue on and on.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.

Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

“The importance and visibility of women's collective anger can't be overstated. This anger takes determination, thoughtfulness, and work. It means respecting our own anger and being willing to respect the anger of other women.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

“An angry enemy is a conquered enemy”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Pick your battles," she muttered in her ear.
"I am! I'm picking this one! I'm picking all of them!”
― Lauren James, Another Beginning

“The lady bears a crust of rage as the ground bears hardened frost in the morning. Some days, 't melts with warm persuasion, but on others, 't lingers, and all is hollow ere its cold fury.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Maybe we cry when we're furious in part because we feel a kind of grief at all the things we want to say or yell that we know we can't. Maybe we're just sad about the very same things we're angry about.”
― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“I was scared nearly out of my mind. I've faced blazing guns in the hands of angry men, which is bad; and daggers in the hands of angry women, which is a thousand times worse.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

“Yes we are angry, yes we are making a noise about it, and yes, we are hungry for change. We are harpies.”
― Kate Hodges

“Rage and time were the only currencies left to her, and she used them.”
― Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

“I hope that bite becomes infected,” Poppy said in a malevolent growl. “I hope your arm turns black and falls off. I hope your bollocks turn gree—”

“Poppy!” Andrew barked.”
― julia quinn, The Other Miss Bridgerton

“We felt the one thing the system feared was angry women. We wanted milk for the children.”
― Kim Chernin

“They stared at each other, mobster and girl, Nat trembling with what couldn't be anger, because good girls weren't supposed to feel rage, were they? Society, not to mention the sisters at school, were both very clear on that point indeed, and Mom...”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Spring's Arcana