“Maybe where the sky and the water and the sand meet my new story begins. I am just now in my infinite moment becoming.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“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
“But the reason the left hates feminists as much as the right (though they may express their hatred in different terms) is because setting boundaries defies the rule of the father. Under patriarchy, women must be accessible: sexually and emotionally, as mothers, wives, and whores. To say ‘no’ to men…”— Meghan Murphy, feministcurrent.com
“In other words, radical feminists did not abandon the fight against capitalism, they abandoned the men who proved, time and time again, that their interest in revolution only extended as far as their dicks.”— Meghan Murphy, feministcurrent.com
“Engle says that ‘anal sex, though often stigmatized, is a perfectly natural way to engage in sexual activity,’ but fails to acknowledge that it is mainly men who engage or wish to engage in anal sex. While she claims an interest in anatomy, Engle either doesn’t understand or (more likely) doesn’t wa…”— Meghan Murphy, feministcurrent.com
“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”— Margaret Atwood, pbs.org
“It’s about making women feel safe, making women feel equal to their male counterparts. It’s about teaching women to counteract misogyny with art and with empowerment and with confident vigor.”— Destiny Frasqueri, imposemagazine.com
“The kids get it. But the grown-ups do not. While celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities, we also need to celebrate tomboys and other girls who fall outside the narrow confines of gender roles. Don’t tell them that they’re not girls. My daughter is happy with her body and comfortab…”— Lisa Selin Davis, mobile.nytimes.com
“A woman doesn't have to provide access to her body as proof she likes you or loves you.”— @zllieimani, pursuit0fhappyness.tumblr.com
“This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist...It’s the thinking of a toddler.”— ariel levy, mobile.nytimes.com
“Of course, when I’m dating someone, I want them to value me for my ideas and accomplishments and humor or whatever. But when I’m fucking someone, I want them to value my lack of a gag reflex.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“I don’t think we need to file all of our actions under ‘feminist’ or ‘not feminist’—especially since consensual sex kind of exists in a political vacuum: It’s pretty much the one place that we can just do things and move on, no angry think-piece needed.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“I'm a man, and I've got to look like a man. And I can't admit that I'm afraid, I can't say that I'm weak. I can't say that I'm tired. I'm not allowed to say that I'm sleepy, or I'm hurt, or that I can't handle this... When I crack that egg for my son, he was free. And I've got to learn to keep crack…”— Terry Crews, mic.com
“I think the big thing about feminism is that it scares men because, you know — the big deal is that people are scared of being controlled. ... I want to be clear that feminism is not saying "women are better than men." That's not what's going on. ... The problem is that men have always felt like the…”— Terry Crews, mic.com
“Is it my job, as a woman, to encourage you to treat me like a person?”— Trista Mateer, thoughtcatalog.com
“Barbra Streisand has never received due credit for her pioneering role in shattering female convention and laying the groundwork for second-wave feminism. Emerging from bohemian nightclubs where her campy patter and vintage costumes were shaped by gay male sensibility, Streisand embodied a scrappy n…”— Camille Paglia, amazon.com
“The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and ‘empowered,’ it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing lo…”— Gail Dines, counterpunch.org