“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter if you already know what a man is telling or showing you. It also doesn't matter if you have no interest in it. This is about getting him to like you, remember?”— Sophia Benoit, allure.com
“I’m not going to pretend I have a deep understanding of what it’s like for white women in Alabama. That’s why we’re having these conversations. We want women to go out and have them in their own communities.”— Glennon Doyle, thecut.com
“The truth is that in addition to not protecting women, we are failing boys: Failing to raise them to believe they can be men without inflicting pain on others, failing to teach them that they are not entitled to women’s sexual attention and failing to allow them an outlet for understandable human fe…”— Jessica Valenti, nytimes.com
“I don't call myself a feminist, but I'm married to a very strong woman. Women have been kicking ass for so long. I dated a girl who called herself a feminist and we didn't always get along, so I think I associate the term with a bad relationship I was in, but maybe I should learn more about it.”— Chris Pratt, thedebrief.co.uk
“The women on The Bachelor shows aren't interested in marriage except as a certificate of completion; proof that they've become what a girl is still expected to become. What they're looking for is the chance to embark on the singular adventure they've read about and seen acted in movie after movie th…”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“The Bachelor presents itself as a show about beautiful young single people finding love, but the show is less a matchmaking service than a sporting event. The sport is femininity.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“Say thank you. Say thank you to the women who gave you a voice. Say thank you to the women who were arrested and imprisoned and beaten and gassed for you to have a voice. Say thank you to the women who refused to back down, to the women who fought tirelessly to give you a voice.”— Dina Leygerman, medium.com
“Can we just finally get rid of the idea that trans rights and feminism are opposed to each other? The only trans people I know who aren’t feminists are the ones who were bullied out by the white supremacist/transphobic/hateful corners of the feminist movement that need sorting out.”— CN Lester, twitter.com
“I put on pants fifty years ago and declared a sort of middle road. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to and I've made enough money to support myself and I ain't afraid of being alone.”— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com
“Romantic love is a mirror in which you can see your whole self pleasantly reflected, if you're lucky. Or it's a dark mirror into which you can disappear.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“A woman’s education was designed to coax her to sleep at sixteen and keep her unchanged and unconscious forever. It was an undoing. It wasn’t a start but a “finishing”.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“We have been hemorrhaging great work for decades, partly because we are so bad at seeing it.”— Lili Loofbourow, theguardian.com
“Fascinated by the difference b/w how guys I know/respect/love speak to me like we’re on equal ground vs how common it still is for some men to speak to women like we are children who need to be taught. But point it out & guess whose chin starts to wiggle while their eyes water?”— Caissie St.Onge, twitter.com
“When Donald Trump suggests the innocence of men like Rob Porter, Roger Ailes, or Roy Moore, he’s not protecting them—he’s protecting himself. Although he claims to believe that "there is no recovery" for men who are accused of sexual abuse, he knows that there is—he is living proof of it.”— Liz Plank, elle.com
“I don’t think feminism is necessarily progressing by the trends that it creates. It’s coming from women doing things, by doing what they want to do. It’s not about shaving or not shaving, it’s about doing what you need and what you want.”— Jessie Andrews, dazeddigital.com