“You learn nothing more gangster, nothing smarter, nothing more powerful than a housewife. Housewives are the smartest motherfuckers on Earth. People think it’s the working woman. No. Suckers work. That’s right. Smart people find other people to work for them.”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.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
“I’m not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.”— Rose McGowan, interviewmagazine.com
“The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.”— Betty Dodson, truth-out.org
“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 any contract between men required the non-white one to adopt the legal identity of his Caucasian companion, would we pop the champagne?”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.com
“I can already hear the outcry against conflating traditional marriage with slavery. Yes, I know, the marital bargain has changed: women are no longer chattels. Tell me this giving-away and name-changing are just vestiges of a cherished tradition. I’ll reply that some of my neighbors here in the sout…”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.com
“Most progressives wouldn’t hesitate to attend a football game, or to praise the enlightened new pope – the one who says he’s sorry, but women still can’t lead his church, or control our reproduction.”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.com
“Patriarchy persists because power does not willingly cede its clout; and also, frankly, because women are widely complicit in the assumption that we’re separate and not quite equal. If we’re woke, we inspect ourselves and others for implicit racial bias, while mostly failing to recognize explicit ge…”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.com
“People who want the world to go back to what it was where women were bullied into silence should just forget it. There is a before and an after. There is no going back. We need to keep amplifying women's voices. We need to keep believing women, and we all need to let women feel and rage because that…”— Melissa Silverstein, twitter.com
“In most movies, the job of the woman is to sit at home, worrying, while the guy does shit. In most long-form TV shows—it seems to me—the women are out there doing shit. I like that.”— Stephen King, twitter.com
“Why is it so hard for men to acknowledge that sexual liberation never actually freed women? That our sexuality remains bound still by so many other man-made knots that it will take a great deal more effort than the offer of a zipless fuck to untangle us?”— Holly Wood, medium.com
““Why do young women have sex with men they don’t want to have?” is a question that begs another question: “How has men telling their female peers for the first decade of their adult lives that they aren’t ready for commitment affected women’s self-worth and thus their ability to set sexual boundarie…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“Dudes: If you consider yourself a feminist and an ally and if your heart goes out to all the women who have been abused in the workplace but don’t know what to do, be a pal and tell three women you work closely with how much you make.”— Mary H.K. Choi, twitter.com
“How is God just like a regular man? If you’re not on your knees, he’s not interested.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“How come it’s so hard to make a fool out of a man? Because most of them are the DIY type in that way.”— Unknown, tcat.tc