“Every woman is expected or pressured in heterosexuality to do the labor that sex workers do, but not every woman is a sex worker.”— Rachel Rabbit White, thecut.com
“To me, you are the sun and I’m hanging my thoughts on a clothesline for you.”— Noor Hindi, diodepoetry.com
“If I had a nickel for every time I stayed up too late for someone who would never wake up for me...”— Melissa Lozada-Oliva, youtube.com
“There are two ways to run your life. Managers know that their day is divided up in pieces for meetings, calls, and administrative tasks. Makers, on the other hand, need to have large blocks of uninterrupted, unscheduled time to do what they do. To create and think.”— Ryan Holiday, medium.com
“When I brush my daughter’s hair and elaborately braid it round the side of her scalp, I am doing the thing that is expected of me. When my husband brushes out tangles before bedtime, he needs his efforts noticed and congratulated—saying aloud in front of both me and her that it took him a whole 15 m…”— Gemma Hartley, harpersbazaar.com
“The gendered assumption is that men are the problem solvers because women are too emotional... But who is really solving the bulk of the world's problems at home and in the office?”— Dr. Michele Ramsey, harpersbazaar.com