“Polite request: it would be great if the world could stop being extravagantly and specifically horrible to women and queer people for a little while. Not only would it make the whole planet more habitable, I would really rather like to write about something else for a bit.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“It seems to me that saying the change must be collective and come from all of society is also a way of shrugging and deciding that individual change is useless and impossible. If you're waiting for society to change to stop treating women badly, something is wrong with you.”— Catherynne Valente, twitter.com
“Growing up, people called me: Bossy. Conceited. Arrogant. But the truth is - boys would act the same way I did, but they'd call him: Ambitious. Visionary. A Leader. You know what? At first it affected me, but then I decided that I wasn't going to change myself to please other people. I kept doing my…”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“In decades of research on rape, no one has found a link between what a woman wears & her chances of being attacked. The only relationship between clothing and sexual assault is how much a victim will be blamed, period.”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com