“Feminism is the collective manifestation of anger. They suppress our anger for a reason. Let’s prove them right.”— Lindy West, nytimes.com
“I did not call myself a feminist until I was nearly 20 years old. My world had taught me that feminists were ugly and ridiculous, and I did not want to be ugly and ridiculous. I wanted to be cool and desired by men, because even as a teenager I knew implicitly that pandering for male approval was a…”— Lindy West, nytimes.com
“Women just want a safe, welcoming, and harassment-free work environment. That's it.”— Gretchen Carlson, twitter.com
“it’s funny how so many men are more concerned about preventing ‘witch hunts’ than actually stopping well-documented abuse by powerful elites”— Gretchen Carlson, twitter.com
“What’s a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she’s wrong about what it’s like to be herself?”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.com
“This step forward (at first right against the will of the men who are left behind) will transform the experiences of love, which is now full of error, alter it root and branch, reshape it into a relation between two human beings and no longer between man and woman. And this more human form of love (…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...one day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer just signify the opposite of the male but something in their own right, something which does not make one think of any supplement or limit but only of life and existence: the female human being.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Women, in whom life abides and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully and more trustingly, are bound to have ripened more thoroughly, become more human human beings, than a man, who is all too light and has not been pulled down beneath the surface of life by the weight of a bodily fruit and who, i…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I want all the single girls out there to know I don’t consider this an achievement.”— Meghan McCain, youtube.com
“A naked woman is neither empowering or oppressed divorced from the context. Women do not exist in a vacuum, nor behind glass, nor as a metaphor. A woman is naked while alone in her shower minding her own business, and she is naked in fetishizing media made by men for men. She is born naked, because…”— aawb, aawb.tumblr.com
“But in any movie where there’s a white witch and a dark witch, that’s just another way to pin women against each other.”— Yema Rose, vulture.com
“These may be termed Utopian dreams. – Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason, till, becoming dependent only on him for the support of my virtue, I view, with indignation, the mistaken notions that enslave my sex. I l…”— Mary Shelley, books.google.com
“The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”— Pat Robertson, washingtonpost.com
“Catholicism and other Christian religions are yet another weapon against indigeneity by the European colonizers, and that the myth of purity is bullshit. Women do not belong to men nor to god.”— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”— Andrea Dworkin, amazon.com
“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women”— Madeleine Albright, goodreads.com
“Every time a man is accused of something bad, or when someone he knows is accused of something bad, the same quote surfaces: ‘As a father of daughters, I …’ Here’s the thing: Only a sociopath needs a daughter — or a sister, a girlfriend, a wife — to make him queasy enough at the thought of a sexual…”— Hunter Harris, vulture.com
“Having a daughter shouldn’t be a requirement for internalizing the problems of working within a sexist industry. Your wives gave birth to a baby girl, not a moral compass.”— Hunter Harris, vulture.com
“If you consider a woman less pure after you've touched her, maybe you should take a look at your hands.”— Kaija Sabbah, goodreads.com