“The show has made me feel really ugly, because I assume that the women they cast are based on their perception of what a man would want— and all the women look the same to me on the show. They always have the same kind of long barrel curls and they’re all skinny. There’s no one that looks like me.”— Diablo Cody, amazon.com
“I know it’s a TV show and whatever, but would it hurt ratings that bad to have a woman whose thighs touch? Would they lose an advertiser?”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“From an early age, I understood that the most meaningful validation a straight woman could get was from a man.”— Amy Kaufman, amazon.com
“I'd like to remind all the women out there feeling inadequate that for every successful woman, there were 1000 doubts & disasters—and for every one of you feeling that now, there are 1000 more like you. You're not alone. Keep going x”— Holly Brockwell, twitter.com
“For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.”— George R. R. Martin, Catelyn Stark, amazon.com
“Over time, I developed the confidence to stop trying to emulate others and to lead in a way that felt comfortable and true to me, it made all the difference. So trust yourself and trust your own voice. Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to chang…”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“It’s less about a specific a policy or program that the development community is creating, it’s more about what women are creating for themselves.”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”— Alan Garner, amazon.com
“It’s happening. Can you feel it? They’re trying to pull us apart. Women, they’re trying to undo us. Don’t be undone. Fight.”— Amber Tamblyn, twitter.com
“Courage could mean to slay the dragon. But could it also mean to tame our fears?”— Jane Spahr, amazon.com
“The most powerful women are always the ones you don’t see coming.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“A future where women are not seen as liars, or objects that exist solely for male pleasure — that future will happen.”— Jennifer Wright, twitter.com
“Here's to more women on these stages, more women winning awards and more women taking over the world.”— Dua Lipa, teenvogue.com
“A woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Okay. Entertainment industry, time to stop using the phrases 'Smart Strong Women' and 'Strong Female Leads'. There are no Dumb Weak Women. A smart strong woman is just a WOMAN. Also? 'Women' are not a TV trend -- we're half the planet.”— Shonda Rhimes, twitter.com
“If only that were true. Women are too easily divided: white evangelicals, white college-educated, women of color, immigrant women, lesbian, transgender, ___. GOP seems to know instinctively how to pit one against the other in oldest war strategy: Divide & conquer.”— Joyce Carol Oates, twitter.com
“She has no idea how beautiful she is because she has been hurt before. People she loved have left her, and since they never gave her an explanation, she created one herself.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“If women ruled the world there would be no wars. Just periods of very tense negotiations once a month”— 1MinuteMaster, reddit.com