Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

⚡️ 10 Quotes from the book

“We live in a patriarchal world—a system that aids and abets inequality. In this system that has gatekept financial information and tools from marginalized groups, it is an act of protest to be financially independent.”

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“If you don’t name your emotions and feel them, they will eat you alive.”

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“Your thoughts, feelings, and mind-set dictate your daily relationship with money.”

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“Women could not have a credit card in their own name without a male cosigner until 1974. Women couldn’t get a business loan without a male cosigner until fourteen years later. And even now, in the twenty-first century, men make the majority of the wealth-building financial decisions in heteronormative relationships.”

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“Because not only does money provide you with your basic human needs such as safety and healthy food, but also it gives you the ability to rest, to nourish your body and mind, and to leave bad situations. Money can buy stability and choice, and that is happiness.”

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“Investing is the thing that makes you rich. You can just get started with a few hundred dollars—every little bit counts. Time matters more than the amount of money.”

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“To make matters worse, women struggle with lower compensation and undervalued labor in a system that conflates our economic productivity with our worth as people.”

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“The point of increasing your income is to fund your dream life and make it easier, not to work more. The occasional sacrifice in your career is to be expected, but if you’re regularly giving up your time, your mental health, and rest, this is the opposite of what we want.”

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“We sign an unseen contract when we take on the work to be financial feminists: we are obligated to pass on this information as well as to use it to change the world—or, at the very least, the piece of the world that’s ours.”

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“When we choose to take on uncomfortable situations, we can start to use money as a tool to create the life and the world we want to see. In good times and in bad, we make a commitment to taking care of ourselves so we can show up at our best for others.”

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