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Funny Gifts for Women Who Have Everything - and Plenty of Opinions
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items She probably doesn’t need another candle, beige scarf or tasteful little gift set. This is for women with opinions, excellent timing and at least one T-shirt that has started a conversation with a stranger. Funny gifts for women who have everything — smart clothes, useful things with personality, slightly inappropriate accessories and a few wonderfully weird finds. Except perhaps this.
One from my own shop - and one people actually keep buying. Cute bunny, very little interest in behaving accordingly. A funny gift for women who like their clothes sweet at first glance and considerably less innocent once you read them.
Cute Bunny Funny Quote Boxy T-Shirt
For the woman who finds ordinary affirmations suspiciously cheerful. Fifty-two dark, sarcastic little reminders for getting through work, people and other minor inconveniences without pretending every morning is a gift.
Sinister Desktop Affirmations for Women
One from my own shop - for the woman who has occasionally considered the possibility that she isn’t overthinking; the world is simply failing to keep up. A suitably modest gift for a smart woman.
Too Smart for This World – Sassy Intellectual Quote Design Premium Oversized Sweatshirt
For carrying everything she apparently needs while refusing to carry a sensible black handbag. Practical enough for every day, but covered in Ruth Asawa’s nasturtiums - because useful things are allowed to have a personality too.
Medium Nylon Crescent Bag
Technically a bird-identification tea towel. Any other interpretation is entirely your responsibility. A small funny gift for women who enjoy excellent design, terrible puns and making dinner guests look twice.
Fowl Language Tea Towel - Tits & Boobies
One from my own shop - because Hamlet has had four hundred years of merchandise. She can have some now. For literary women, Shakespeare people and anyone who suspects the classics might have looked slightly different if more women had been allowed to...
She Hamlet Boxy T-Shirt
For the woman who enjoys having opinions and then makes the questionable decision to examine where those opinions came from. Jia Tolentino on the internet, identity, self-delusion and the strange performance of being a person now.
Trick Mirror
One from my own shop - Medusa, eye contact and exactly the amount of warning a T-shirt should reasonably be expected to provide. A statement gift for women who have no particular interest in becoming smaller, quieter or easier to look at.
Look me in the eye. Fitted Scoop T-Shirt
For the woman who can look at one perfectly respectable work of art and immediately supply the caption nobody else in the room was brave enough to say. Basically art history with considerably worse behaviour.
From Art to Snark Oddly Correct Caption Game
One from my own shop - for the woman who absolutely has everything under control. “Mostly” is simply there for accuracy. I like this one especially as a desk gift: useful, understated and unfortunately relatable.
Under Control (Mostly) Mouse Pad
Every carefully curated gift guide deserves one object nobody could possibly have predicted. It’s a squishy illuminated pickle. It serves no obvious purpose beyond making the room slightly stranger, which feels like sufficient justification.
Positive Pickle Pal Squishy Light
One from my own shop - for women whose relationship with weekends is currently more theoretical than practical. Coffee may not solve the problem, but putting the question on the mug at least makes the situation feel intentional.
What Is a Weekend? Coffee Mug
Looks like the familiar restroom symbol until hot coffee turns the little figure into something rather more heroic. A clever gift for a bold woman that manages to make its point without shouting it across the kitchen.
It Was Never a Dress Color-Changing Mug
One from my own shop - for carrying books, groceries and the occasional refusal to explain yourself. Useful everyday tote, dark street-art energy and a fairly efficient life philosophy printed on the front.
Don’t Look Back – Dark Street Art Graphic with Bold Message All Over Print Tote Bag
For the woman who likes her accessories to quietly reveal that she has read the book - and probably has notes. Literary enough for book people, beautiful enough not to look like book merch.
Classic Literary Quote Scarf
Before “gifts for bold women” became a shopping category, Virginia Woolf had the rather more radical suggestion of giving women money, privacy and somewhere to shut the door. Free to read - and still annoyingly relevant.
FREE - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Lose an hour in the internet the way I wish the internet still worked: handmade, independent, opinionated and slightly chaotic. Women-made zines, underground voices and rabbit holes nobody optimized for an algorithm.
About this Collection | Zine Web Archive | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
For when “bold women” needs considerably more art history and considerably fewer slogan mugs. Feminist art, artists who challenged the rules and enough visual rabbit holes to make you forget you originally came here looking for a gift.
Feminist Art
Before bold statements became T-shirts, they were banners, picket signs and very inconvenient public demands. Photographs of women marching, organizing, protesting and refusing to disappear quietly - a rather good place to end this list.
About this Collection | Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party | Digital Collections | Library of Congress