“If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.”— Barbara Walters, books.google.com
“People want an illusion that female artists are available. They fantasize less when they know they actually somebody’s wife.”— Cardi B, wmagazine.com
“As always, the guy’s considered cool and the girl’s a slut.”— Isabella Aguilar, Giacomo Durzi, Andrea De Sica, Camilla Rossi Govender, Chabeli Sastre Gonzalez, imdb.com
“Who do religions fear the most? You're going to say to me: Satan, the devil. It's actually women.”— Patrick Wanis, vice.com
“Oversharing. What does it say about us that a woman who speaks the truth of her experience should be dismissed for telling more than the world feels comfortable hearing?”— Joyce Maynard, nytimes.com
“If men are so inherently orderly and logical, they can control themselves in a orderly and logical fashion and not kill people because they aren't getting what they want when they want it. Otherwise I don't want to hear any more about how chaotic women are.”— Catherynne Valente, twitter.com
“They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions.”— George Pelecanos, Det. Ellis Carver, Seth Gilliam, imdb.com
“Men shame women for having a lot of consensual sex more than they shame other men for rape.”— kenz Ⓥ , twitter.com
“The double standard is really unbelievable. Hollywood loves male directors the more abusive and narcissistic they are. Meantime women directors sneeze in the wrong direction and they’re called difficult. It’s mind blowing.”— Lexi Alexander , twitter.com
“No one ever seems to be worried about people’s careers being derailed by rumors when those people are women.”— Kimberly Carter, twitter.com
“Compare Andrew Sullivan’s NY mag piece today with Moira’s piece edited by The Cut and tell me you really don’t see what an immensely higher standard women are held to in all things.”— Danielle Tcholakian, twitter.com
“But this conundrum remains: I want the protection and love of a man while maintaining my own alpha qualities. And I will never again hide or play down my success to appease anyone, especially not my partner.”— Shannon Lell, washingtonpost.com
“Yet men are still expected to be protectors and providers. I’ll admit that I benefit from this dynamic. I love that men want to defend the ones they love with strength and fierce determination. I go weak in the knees when a man I’m seeing comes to rescue me from a broken pipe or possessed electronic…”— Shannon Lell, washingtonpost.com
“I keep running up against this power dynamic in the dating world, and I blame our culture’s preoccupation with wealth. For many decades, men had greater access to high-paying careers. They still have more access than women do, but the gender pay gap is narrowing.”— Shannon Lell, washingtonpost.com
“Our society likes women to be smart and beautiful but also quiet and appeasing. When a woman is opinionated or more traditionally “successful,” it can be threatening to her male partner.”— Shannon Lell, washingtonpost.com
“Men in Hollywood are frequently afforded second chances and comebacks... Women in Hollywood, however, aren’t afforded the same luxury. If a woman behaves badly, says the wrong thing or makes a mistake, they’re sidelined. When a man behaves badly, he’s just intense and it can be attributed to their f…”— Amy O'Connor, dailyedge.ie
“Not only are women expected to weather sexual violence, intimate partner violence, workplace discrimination, institutional subordination, the expectation of free domestic labor, the blame for our own victimization, and all the subtler, invisible cuts that undermine us daily, we are not even allowed…”— Lindy West, nytimes.com
“More than half the men expected their careers to take precedence over their wives’ careers, while most women expected egalitarian marriages. (Almost no women expected their own careers to come first.)”— Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, hbr.org
“The worse and most common way people feed rape culture is by making girls change their clothes in their houses because men are present... Boys walk around without shirts & nobody will say anything because we’re already programmed to think that they have nothing to sexualize.”— Asia Cheyanne, twitter.com