“'I’m not a feminist. I love men.' are two sentences as unrelated as 'I’m not an accountant. I love archeology.'”— Erin Gloria Ryan, twitter.com
“Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behavior. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong.”— Germain Greer, edition.cnn.com
“Men do not live in cultures where the degradation and brutalisation of men at the hands of women is the stuff of pornography, entertainment and advertising. Men do not live with the consciousness that they are being hunted by women who would take sexual delight in dismembering them simply on account…”— Sheila Jeffreys, amazon.com
“If it's so normal and well-intended, why don't men tell other men to smile?”— Abi Crutchfield, lustforagreatperhaps.tumblr.com
“I really am not interested in whether men are made uncomfortable by feminism because I am made uncomfortable by men every day of my life.”— Anonymous, ohblimeyy.tumblr.com
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“The honest to god truth? In the year prior to becoming a full-time producer and writer, I wrote over 350 pieces for various publications. I worked to get where I am today. It wasn’t just lucky. It was work. But I’d do it all over again.”— Kendra Syrdal, kendrasyrdal.tumblr.com
“I'm very much against the arrangement of procreation, at least for humans. If I could have designed it, it would be a toss-up who gets pregnant, the man or woman. Boy, that would end rape for one thing. And 'woman artist'? Disgusting.”— Dorothea Tanning, amazon.com
“When you force yourself into someone's daughter, you rape generations of women.”— Aman Batra, facebook.com
“People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.”— Elizabeth Meriwether, brainyquote.com
“"If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me, ‘Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you.’ And I went home and started crying to my wife, and I said, ‘I have to make this picture.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I’m an interesting…”— Dustin Hoffman, youtube.com
“Here is how you walk away from him: you get up, flick your hair, sashay away and never look back.”— Kat George, thoughtcatalog.com
“Womanhood is learning how to witch yourself in slow motion. When they say your name like a curse, say it back to them like an incantation. When they call you cold, show them how you conjure fire.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story — I will.”— Amy Schumer, vulture.com
“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, people.com
“I never used to be bothered by how small I was. Then something happened… and I was. Then I fell in love with myself again, and I wasn’t bothered anymore. I never will be again.”— Quinta Brunson, thequintab.tumblr.com
“It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it.”— Meryl Streep, vimeo.com
“In general, though, women aren’t really allowed to be kick-ass. It’s like the famous distinction between art and craft: Art, and wildness, and pushing against the edges, is a male thing. Craft, and control, and polish, is for women. Culturally we don’t allow women to be as free as they would like, b…”— Kim Gordon, amzn.com