6 Lessons Learnt：跟女性前辈上的6堂课！
21世纪的女性面对很多迷思，有声音告诉我们应该积极进取，尽量在别人面前表演自己；同时，另一把声音则告诉我们千万不要事事「博出位」，以免惹来身边男性讨厌。究竟现今的女性应该如何自处呢？今天，让我们跟6位女性前辈上课，学习如何做女人。
On Free Will
英国女作家勃朗特早已在19世纪（当时女性还未有投票权）的时候，已经告诉大家别小看女性！女性可是一个会思考、会说话、会行动的个体，女性并不属於任何人！
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
On Diligence
美国女权作家里奇告诉我们，别懒惰，任何成功背後都必须要下苦功。过程是辛苦的，妳会很想「走捷径」，很想依赖别人，但相信自己的能力吧，妳一定能够做到！
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
― Adrienne Rich
On Self-Agency
被视为女权主义者的鼻祖之一的18世纪英国女作家兼哲学家玛莉·沃斯通克拉夫特提醒我们千万不要将Feminism等同於Man-hating，因为女权主义根本就不是父权主义的极端。
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
On Global Responsibility
Hf女性两样都会追求，但女权剧作家恩斯勒提醒我们不要将过多的注意力放在自己身上。世界上，还有更多值得我们去关注和改变的事情呢！
Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!
—Eve Ensler
On Free Thinking
这句出自 Coco Chanel的说话，相信没有人比她说出来更具说服力。 儘管当时客观环境是对女性多麽不利，Chanel从来都没有放弃过实现自己的想法，多亏她我们才能从昔日约束性的时装中解放出来呢。
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
― Coco Chanel
On Motivation
记住，妳要征服的从来不是男人，也不是另一个女人，而是妳自己。让我们时刻可以像诗人兼作家C. JoyBell C. 一样，检视自己做事的动机，看看有没有发现不应该存在的嫉妒和报复。
Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.
― C. JoyBell C.
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