“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”— Audre Lorde, harpersbazaar.com
“So many men mistake their own disrespect for women as a woman's lack of self-respect.”— Ryan Henly, facebook.com
“We celebrate the Kate Middletons and the Amal Clooney’s for being chosen, or, in the active voice, for landing, an accomplished man. Amal Clooney is a spectacularly accomplished woman in her own right, but how many other esteemed human rights lawyers can you name? Had you heard of Amal Almuddin befo…”— Dana Schwartz, observer.com
“How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.”— Karen Quan, amazon.com
“'Modesty is invisibility,' said Aunt Lydia. 'Never forget it. To be seen, to be SEEN, is to be,' her voice trembled, 'Penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable.'”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“You are still objectified. You are still catcalled. You are still sexualized. You are still told you’re too skinny or you’re too fat. You’re still told you’re too old or too young. You’re applauded when you ‘age gracefully.’ You’re still told men age ‘better.’ You’re still told to dress like a lady.…”— Dina Leygerman, medium.com
“You know how 1st world feminists get told that they don’t need feminism? They’re told that they should be glad they’re not ‘really oppressed’ like the women in 3rd world countries. That things could always be worse. You know what my mother tells me? She says I don’t need feminism because I should be…”— Unknown, natasharamonoff.tumblr.com
“Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?’ No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?’ No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?’ No,…”— Andrea Dworkin, amazon.com
“There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera—a lot of woman struggle with that. But there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days I’m super strong; some…”— Nicki Minaj, vogue.com
“The day that women can casually be topless and not be raped or degraded will be the day that women will be equal in society.”— Willow Smith, twitter.com
“Beauty or brains? Fuck that, it’s not a dichotomy. Let’s not act like mascara glues girls eyes so shut that they can’t read a word of Dickens or solve a trig problem. Let’s talk about how no boy has ever been asked if he’d rather get his Bachelor’s or get married; no boy has ever been told that he’s…”— uglyboyband, uglyboyband.tumblr.com
“Why should a woman have to be modest in order to be respected?”— Unknown, letitcome--letitbe.tumblr.com
“'On our site we run stuff like, ‘Can you wear white pants when you have your period?’ and I flip out...It’s like, Shoot me in the fucking mouth. It reduces us to bodies, and I hate it. I resent how reduced the world of women is. I resent how small we allow ourselves to be.'”— Cat Marnell, nymag.com
“I have no time no another man trying to tear down a woman for being successful.”— Cara Delevingne, twitter.com
“You are literally saying that if we look a certain way, we are yours to take. But we are not! It's our right to express ourselves.”— Ariana Grande, twitter.com
“Many if not most women pay for the privilege of being in a serious romantic relationship by taking on multiple full-time jobs, and for me that’s not remotely worth the trade off.”— ad infinitum, jezebel.com
“There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men. ‘Great’ books, as defined by the Western canon, didn’t contain female protagonists I could admire. In fact, they barely contained female protagonists at al…”— Kelsey McKinney, theatlantic.com