Haley: So, what do you do for fun? Amanda: You're looking at the witch who put the hole in the ozone layer. Sean: Wow, I didn't know girls could do stuff like that. Amanda: Well, you don't know this girl.
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Quotes tagged ‘feminism’
My mama says all of history was written by men, so of course they're gonna make themselves look good.
Check the staff page, bro. You’ll see my pronoun throbbing away in my bio, nestled in the digital universe that is the company website.
Me: Did you know people only use half their brains? 6-year-old: Maybe boys.
I want to write a poem for the women on Long Island whose words stretch and curl like bubblegum around the forefinger.
So, a woman can’t go out like a man, huh? She takes pills. Swims out to sea or slits her wrists, but she ain’t got the guts to blotto the old face, isn’t that what you said Tony, huh? Here’s one woman who’s going to take it right between the big blues, just to show you how smart you really are.
— Donald P. Bellisario, Erin Wolfe, Cathie Shirriff, imdb.com
As standards of beauty changed, the slender and slim bodies of the ’60s and ’70s gave way to the toned, body-building-inspired muscles of the ’80s, the techniques became more specific. Even as lifting weights became standard for women, aerobics, Jazzercise, and barre still emphasized slimming; women…
If women don’t realize what’s going on in the world, they won’t step in and fix it.
— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com
Being a cunt is cool. If you're cool, you're a cunt.
LGBTQ girls get rejected by women all the time, ESPECIALLY in high school, but we never shoot women who won't date/sleep with us. So hmm . . . I guess the problem isn't women rejecting you, it's toxic masculinity.
I really resent the idea that just because someone does not believe that women owe men sex, that boys are naturally superior, and that feminism is a conspiracy to destroy the human race, that that person ‘hates men.’ I care about men too much to think so poorly of them.
It’s incredibly misogynist to tell me I can only write a certain type of woman. Because that’s saying women must be a certain type of person.
You're employing the status quo and the cheap phallocentric logic that supports it to reduce the entire female gender to second-class citizens, to limit and deprive women of the rights they're due. You're doing this unconsciously rather than deliberately, but that makes you even guiltier. You protec…
I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and she repeated them endlessly. One was to ‘be a lady,’ and that meant conduct yourself civilly, don’t let emotions like anger or envy get in your way. And the other was to be ind…
Feminism…I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to…
There is nothing stronger than a broken women who has rebuilt herself.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Dreaming a world where we value the careers of our girls like we do of our boys.
If you see a woman who is working super hard to become who she's meant to be, and achieve the things she wants to achieve, and you have nothing to add to her life, or to give back to her in any way, please just leave her the fuck alone.