“I'm not naive to the ways of men. Their need to objectify, conquer. They see what they want to see. Women, however, see into the soul of a person.”— Jennifer Salt, Moira O'Hara, Alexandra Breckenridge, imdb.com
“A gentleman allows the woman to maintain her fiction.”— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“Fascinated by the difference b/w how guys I know/respect/love speak to me like we’re on equal ground vs how common it still is for some men to speak to women like we are children who need to be taught. But point it out & guess whose chin starts to wiggle while their eyes water?”— Caissie St.Onge, twitter.com
“When you’re crying again because women are so pretty, it’s best not to fight what you’re feeling and let their beauty overtake you.”— Taryn Englehart, reductress.com
“I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“The knowledge that I had made a mistake in marrying this man didn’t come to me quickly. It was slow and oblique and easy to avoid confronting head-on. Perhaps the problem was that I didn’t like my job. Perhaps buying a house would fix things.”— Brandy Jensen, myrecipes.com
“Like, you can’t go to brunch in most areas without running into a gaggle of women in matching outfits.”— Nashville Resident, buzzfeed.com
“The internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.”— Laurie Penny, longreads.com
“When is modern science gonna find a cure for a woman’s mouth?”— Jon Pollack, Dr. Leo Spaceman, Chris Parnell, imdb.com
“Confession time. What really keeps me up at night. Apathy of the human condition. Abuse of females. Yemen. The Rohingya. Syria. Syrians. Mugabe’s successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Torture. Abject cruelty. You?”— Kathy Griffin, twitter.com
“You know, my whole life and career has been championing the rights of women, gay folk and disenfranchised folk. This administration is a fucking nightmare for us.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“The size of a body was never just the size of a body. Thinness was a door that opened to a world of happy marriages, perfect children, enviable careers, meteoric ascents. It was a divine healing fantasy: all the wrongs in their lives would be righted by endless self-flagellation, and the mantra of t…”— Your Fat Friend, medium.com
“She has a fresh whitehead on her chin and an old angry one on her cheek and not a stitch of makeup to soften the blow. And for this, she gets to hear she is beautiful. Get me a cane to shake grouchily into the air, because in my day, not even actually being beautiful was enough.”— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com
“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I will close by say…”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“Actually, some studies indicate that men take twice as many selfies as women 'cause it's considered to be an acceptable form of male vanity.”— Stephanie Sengupta, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
“Men who call women crazy are always the men who have first pushed them to the brink.”— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com
“Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.”— Melinda Gates, amazon.com
“Strong women make strong societies. Nothing matters more to our future than the well being of women and children.”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org