“I really resent the idea that just because someone does not believe that women owe men sex, that boys are naturally superior, and that feminism is a conspiracy to destroy the human race, that that person ‘hates men.’ I care about men too much to think so poorly of them.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“If you believe that abortion should only be permissible in cases of rape or incest, don’t pretend it’s about ‘life’. If it’s ok so long as she was raped, what you’re saying is that women should be punished for consenting to sex by forcing them to give birth.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“Something straight men don’t seem to realise or want to acknowledge: women get rejected, too. Women and girls get sexually frustrated and lonely, too. The difference is that we’re never taught that violence is an acceptable way to handle those feelings.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“Polite request: it would be great if the world could stop being extravagantly and specifically horrible to women and queer people for a little while. Not only would it make the whole planet more habitable, I would really rather like to write about something else for a bit.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“Abortion is a consent issue. How could it be anything else? When a person is compelled by the state to bear a child against her will, that is a monstrous violation of her consent, her dignity and her autonomy.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“People assume my male friend (who’s doing great, by the way) is fully qualified to make his own choices, whether relating to his career or his personal life.”— Megan Greenwell, slate.com
“How is it that no man understands that every woman, whether she's sixteen or sixty, still has that awkward, insecure, self-conscious teenage girl inside of her?”— Bonnie Sikowitz, Elliot Reid, Sarah Chalke, imdb.com
“It’s incredibly misogynist to tell me I can only write a certain type of woman. Because that’s saying women must be a certain type of person.”— Gillian Flynn, vanityfair.com
“You're employing the status quo and the cheap phallocentric logic that supports it to reduce the entire female gender to second-class citizens, to limit and deprive women of the rights they're due. You're doing this unconsciously rather than deliberately, but that makes you even guiltier. You protec…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I have a peculiar way of learning and I think it must it must be a peculiar man to teach me successfully.”— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com
“It is hard to consider women a 'discrete and insular minority', unable to employ the 'political processes ordinarily to be relied upon' when they constitute a majority of the electorate. And the suggestion that they are incapable of exerting that political power smacks of the same paternalism that t…”— Antonin Scalia, oyez.org
“Most women need about 20 minutes for their bodies to fully prepare for penetrative sex.”— Jenna Birch, huffingtonpost.com
“If you see a woman who is working super hard to become who she's meant to be, and achieve the things she wants to achieve, and you have nothing to add to her life, or to give back to her in any way, please just leave her the fuck alone.”— Lane Moore, twitter.com
“Without her, the world was empty — its ambition, its pride, its good, its evil, seemed but the dreariest and most foolish trifles!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I guess if I'm being honest with myself, I started caring more. My feminism was birthed there.”— Katie Shelton, skunkboyblog.com
“For if a woman have an innocent, unsuspecting soul as delicate as the curled cup of a Nile lily, the more easily will it droop and wither in the heated grasp of a careless, cruel hand.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“If I was a male researcher sitting here, I would not have to justify the commercialization of my work. I would not have to justify trying to straddle the economy and popular culture. I would never be asked. Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Dan Ariely, they would not be asked.”— Brené Brown, theguardian.com
“It's really not that hard to tell when someone hates women. It's literally in their words and their work. Ask yourself why you're not paying attention.”— Aminatou Sow, twitter.com
“Did you know: women are people- not receptacles for male feelings, problems, or spermatozoa?”— Allison Tolman, twitter.com