“The rape joke is that you were crazy for the next five years, and had to move cities, and had to move states, and whole days went down into the sinkhole of thinking about why it happened. Like you went to look at your backyard and suddenly it wasn’t there, and you were looking down into the center o…”— Patricia Lockwood, theawl.com
“Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard…”— Kristi Coulter, qz.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, qz.com
“I think that I get labeled a sex comic just because I'm a woman. Like, a guy could get up here and literally pull his dick out and people would be like, 'He's a thinker.'”— Amy Schumer, youtube.com
“Do they think models size 6 and above can't make it to the end of the runway without stopping midway for a burrito? Enough, enough with these waifish elves walking your impossible clothing down an ugly runway with ugly lighting and noisy music. Life doesn't look like that runway.”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“You become a woman the first time you stand up for yourself when they get your order wrong at a diner, or when you first realize your parents are full of shit. You become a woman the first time you get fitted for a bra and realize you’ve been wearing a very wrong size your whole fucking life. You be…”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've got symbols of!”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“It’s still about nudity. Is that all I’m good for? I’d like to show that I can get publicity without using my ass or getting fired from a picture.”— Marilyn Monroe, vanityfair.com
“It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“And yes, it’s important that their dad is a feminist, because now that’s what they expect of all men.”— Barack Obama, glamour.com
“So we need to break through these limitations. We need to keep changing the attitude that raises our girls to be demure and our boys to be assertive, that criticizes our daughters for speaking out and our sons for shedding a tear. We need to keep changing the attitude that punishes women for their s…”— Barack Obama, glamour.com
“While I’ll keep working on good policies—from equal pay for equal work to protecting reproductive rights—there are some changes that have nothing to do with passing new laws. In fact, the most important change may be the toughest of all—and that’s changing ourselves.”— Barack Obama, glamour.com
“I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.”— Sonia Johnson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.”— Toni Morrison, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are a Witch and by saying aloud, "I am a Witch" three times and thinking about that. You are a Witch by being female, untamed, angry, joyous and immortal.”— W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), sleepy-cactus.tumblr.com
“If the country is to flourish, we must make room for free women, and let go of the economic and social systems built around the presumption that no woman really counts unless she is married.”— Rebecca Traister, nymag.com
“In fact, wherever you find increasing numbers of single women in history, you find change.”— Rebecca Traister, nymag.com