“I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“Do they really want to do a show with Roseanne Barr? No, they want a thin blonde girl... She’s just funnier than everybody.”— Chris Rock, vulture.com
“Chinese feminists found a way around it—they began using #RiceBunny in its place along with the rice bowl and bunny face emoji. When spoken aloud the words for “rice bunny” are pronounced “mi tu,” a homophone that cleverly evades detection.”— Margaret Andersen, wired.com
“Your conversation about the derailment of the feminist movement is precisely what derailed the feminist movement. Do you know who loves when women demean each other based on their looks or their brains? The patriarchy.”— Liz Plank, twitter.com
“Women sexually attracted to socks are not impervious to the male gaze. The difference today is, we have to say that we are. Feminism doesn't emancipate us, it makes us bad liars.”— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com
“She has a fresh whitehead on her chin and an old angry one on her cheek and not a stitch of makeup to soften the blow. And for this, she gets to hear she is beautiful. Get me a cane to shake grouchily into the air, because in my day, not even actually being beautiful was enough.”— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com
“Men who call women crazy are always the men who have first pushed them to the brink.”— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com
“This is reinforcing gender roles. . . . But, aw, what if someone said that to me?”— Jason Ritter, amazon.com
“You can’t only absorb the ideals of a feminist world view through shows that espouse them— often, there are more lessons to learn about womanhood on shows where the women (or, more typically, the men) are behaving in ways that proliferate misogyny in one way or another.”— Allison Williams, amazon.com
“You are not responsible for the actions of those who’ve come before you, but you absolutely do have a responsibility to acknowledge those actions and their impacts.”— G.D. Anderson, gdanderson.com
“My goal is equality. It’s a big goal but you know, you’ve got to aim high.”— G.D. Anderson, gdanderson.com
“It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“It’s happening. Can you feel it? They’re trying to pull us apart. Women, they’re trying to undo us. Don’t be undone. Fight.”— Amber Tamblyn, twitter.com
“To enter the transcendental state that takes the female brain into “high” orgasm, you absolutely need to feel safe; safe from “bad stress,” in the sense of knowing you are entering a trance state in the presence of someone who will protect you if necessary at the very least, and not endanger you or…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“One could say that she actually becomes, biochemically, a wild woman or a maenad. She becomes so disinhibited and impervious to pain that it is as if she is in a state of altered consciousness. Women in “high” orgasm go more deeply into this trance state than at any other time. Judgment is suspended…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The full melting response or “high orgasm” in women—which I would define (though our language around female sexual response is so inadequate) as that kind of orgasm that most intensely induces the most complete possible trance state and that most involves all the body systems, so that afterward the…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The autonomic nervous system also responds to a woman’s sense of safety or danger. It sends the signals to the brain and then to the body that one is safe, so one can relax, eat, and digest; or relax and sleep; or relax and make love.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“That’s what explained vaginal versus clitoral orgasms? Neural wiring? Not culture, not upbringing, not patriarchy, not feminism, not Freud?”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Courage could mean to slay the dragon. But could it also mean to tame our fears?”— Jane Spahr, amazon.com