“This isn’t about what’s fair. It’s about what we can afford. And we can’t afford this. We can’t afford to pretend it’s fine that everything we do or think or wear or say yes or no to is somehow wrong. We can’t afford to act like it’s okay that ‘Girls can do anything!’ got translated somewhere along…”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Women, Having It All
“No, wait: fat is beautiful. No, wait: thin is beautiful, too, as long as you don’t work for it. No, wait: All women are beautiful! As though we are toddlers who must be given exactly equal shares of princess dust, or we’ll throw a tantrum.”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Women, beauty, Words, Language, Equality
“What’s a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she’s wrong about what it’s like to be herself?”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Women, feminism, Career