“I hope this awful bitch I worked with years ago can never find jeans that really work on her, and also that she may have unfettered access to abortion services should she need them.”— Brandy Jensen, jezebel.com
“I believe that in this worldview, which is the dominant one, beauty is seen as the only legitimate capital that women are allowed possess. But beauty is supposed to serve power’s interests. When beauty occurs in an “unruly body”, such as a non-white person’s body, then it is an existential threat.”— Tressie McMillan Cottom , tressiemcphd.medium.com
“Behind the facade of millennial pink and Rosie the Riveter posters, mainstream feminism has largely ignored an entire population: marginalized women.”— Megan DiTrolio, marieclaire.com
“For some couples, it’s about using the power of their purse to support entrepreneurs who have historically had fewer opportunities. Other couples simply feel more comfortable working with women. In some cases, they are even paying more to work with independent, local women business owners rather tha…”— Alyson Krueger, nytimes.com
“They circulated a petition to pressure my employer (who was funded primarily by labor unions) into no-platforming me, a socialist feminist, because my vision of women’s liberation differed from Hugh Hefner’s.”— Meghan Murphy, spectator.us
“A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed.”— Rush Limbaugh, amazon.com
“There’s power to be found in women behaving badly—and in women behaving rudely.”— Rachel Charlene Lewis, autostraddle.com
“I don't want to be in a good mood just because it makes people feel comfortable.”— Olivia Gatwood, podcasts.apple.com
“You deserve the space that you can take up. And you can take up as much space as you need.”— Megan Rapinoe, marieclaire.com
“Look at me. I put this war paint on, but underneath I’m scarred and scared and horny and tired and love you.”— Lisa Taddeo, amazon.com
“Just say it, you always know the killer was a woman if she cleaned up after.”— Olivia Gatwood, amazon.com
“Josh: You know, I love feminism, you know. I mean I basically am feminism. Ella: I just absolutely don’t believe you. Josh: I will never open a door for you. Never. Not ever.”— Thomas Ward, Hannah Gadsby, Liz Doran, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com
“Even with social media, it’s really become so much about who’s got what, and whose kid is doing this, and whose partner has a better career, and a nicer house—all of that! That’s what I found in almost every place.”— Lisa Taddeo, hazlitt.net
“From a very young age, I knew the kind of woman I wanted to become: independent.”— Unknown, weheartit.com
“Raise your hand if you’ve apologized at work (or in a texting convo) in the last 48 hours.”— Lindsay Tigar, fastcompany.com
“There’s a real collective force when so many women come together. It’s a shame that it requires so many of us to be heard, but the force of it has the same force of a legal statement being implemented.”— Natalie Portman, harpersbazaar.com
“Unlike women, who are encouraged to foster deep platonic intimacy from a young age, American men—with their puffed up chests, fist bumps, and awkward side hugs—grow up believing that they should not only behave like stoic robots in front of other men, but that women are the only people they are allo…”— Melanie Hamlett, harpersbazaar.com