“I haven’t listened to the recording of what he said in 2005, because I feel like it’s so irrelevant. It was 11 years ago. We’re not voting for someone based on their character.”— Allison Doyle, nymag.com
“If women grabbed men like that, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But if men do that to women, they blow it out of proportion.”— Valerie Still, nymag.com
“If things get tough, maybe you get another little part-time job. Maybe you go to your boss and say, ‘Hey, listen, things are hard. Can I work some overtime? What can I do?”— Tina Vondran, nymag.com
“But all I hear is people are saying he likes to grope women. I’m sorry, that just hasn’t given me any doubt about my vote.”— Jane Biddick, nymag.com
“Since December, I’ve done very little reading. I’ve heard little snippets here and there on the radio, and I don’t watch TV. I’m just going on what I have at the gut.”— Jane Biddick, nymag.com
“I heard that he said something about groping women, and I’m thinking, Okay, No. 1, I think that’d be great. I like getting groped! I’m heterosexual. I’m a woman, and when a guy gropes me, I get groping on them!”— Jane Biddick, nymag.com
“Now men are afraid to be men. They think being a real man is actually being a pussy, that if you take a chair out for a lady, or you’re nice or even affectionate to your girl in front of your boys, you’re less of a man. It’s so sick. They won’t be a gentleman because that makes them appear soft. Tha…”— Rihanna, vanityfair.com
“These women talk about feminism, but I feel Rihanna lives it. She doesn’t tend to speak up about gender equality and other major issues, but she embodies one of the most important acts of feminist: to be yourself and not feel you have to apologise for it. This is evident in everything she does... Wh…”— Radhika Sanghani, telegraph.co.uk
“Personally, I thank Good Girls Gone Bad [music artists] for giving me the blueprint for ignoring those around me who felt the need to tell me who I was. There will always be detractors, and someone will always think you are ‘faking it,’ but none of that matters if you know that this new and ever-cha…”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“The truth is this: No one stays the same forever. Girls grow up, and sometimes we do it with a bang. We can learn something from the Good Girls Gone Bad of every decade: how to claim yourself, how to rewrite your narrative, that it’s never too late to change.”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“I’ve seen many ‘good girls go bad,’ but I specifically remember when Rihanna named her fourth album after the trope, effectively putting the industry on notice: We were about to encounter an entirely new woman... Being a young woman is complex. We’re told, in some capacity, that our silence protects…”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“Rihanna went from stay to needed me and I think that’s the transformation every girl needs in their life.”— yxngxanhoe, yxngxanhoe.tumblr.com
“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”— Ellen Degeneres, quotes.lifehack.org
“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t.”— Annie Leibovitz, fastcocreate.com
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”— Jennifer Lopez, huffingtonpost.com