“'Girlhood' often feels like a baffled attempt to comprehend something impossible: How did a person given to climaxing joyously in the bathtub end up trapped in a 'twilit mode of passivity'?”— Katy Waldman, newyorker.com
“Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't.”— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Belinda, Kristin Scott Thomas, imdb.com
“I didn’t touch it. He was fired shortly after that incident, but it was unrelated to his penis.”— traceybyfire, medium.com
“Intimate best friendships are the first committed relationship many American girls have, and whether they are sexual or not, they are romantic. Girls give each other presents, cuddle and kiss each other, braid each other's hair and do each other's makeup, talk for hours on the phone, write each othe…”— Alice Bolin, amazon.com
“Do I wish for women to be this entitled, this free to subject total strangers to their whims? I do, or at least I wish for a critical mass of women to behave like this in public so we purge the cultural stereotype.”— Hanna Rosin, thecut.com
“A person who is not afraid of looking like a fool gets to do a lot more dancing.”— Margaret Renkl, nytimes.com
“[to Lois] Close your purse. I can see your tampons. And why do you need six? What happens to you?”— Seth MacFarlane, Stewie Griffin, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com
“Would you rather be groped in a bus or groped in a bar, and also what were you wearing, you filthy skank?”— Isabella Giovannini, mcsweeneys.net
“Infuriating line you have to tiptoe along as a woman: if you push back, you're 'too aggressive'; if you grin and bear it, you're 'too weak.' And, of course, no matter what you do (too weak, too aggressive), you have a 'tone problem'.”— Susan Fowler, twitter.com
“Crowds at Trump rallies called for my imprisonment more times than I can count. They shouted ‘Guilty! Guilty!’ like the religious zealots in Game of Thrones shouting ‘Shame! Shame!’ while Cersei Lannister walked back to the Red Keep.”— Hillary Clinton, amazon.com
“I’ve never gotten used to how much effort it takes just to be a woman in the public eye.”— Hillary Clinton, amazon.com
“Women no longer accept white men as the official arbiters of right and wrong, of what is and is not technically constitutive of workplace hostility. If anything, white men would be the absolute worst judges of such affairs considering their relative social advantage.”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“It’s 2017 and men somehow still believe that what feminists are asking for is validation. Women are not asking for men’s opinion.”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“This is what shit toweling day in and day out does — it makes women feel like men really believe that their job is to just take men’s shit. Men should never be held personally accountable for their sexism. All sexism is really just women’s misunderstanding. It was a joke. It’s just locker-room talk.…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“When men try to stifle women’s right to grievance with bad-faith arguments so badly construed that it insults everyone’s intelligence, it is the emotional equivalent of when a man wipes his ass with a towel and then flings it in your face.”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“Every day, men throw shit-stained towels in the face of women when they defend Bill Cosby and simultaneously accuse dozens of women of hearsay and fabrication. Or when they insist rape culture is just in women’s heads. These men demonstrate that they really think their extracurricular time is best s…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“I have found a home in a woman strong, fierce, and loved. And she smiles back at me in the bathroom mirror. Proud and unafraid.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Some men will want to hold you like the answer; you are not THE answer. You are not the problem. You are not the poem, or the punchline, or the riddle, or the joke.”— Sarah Kay, youtube.com