“I cannot tell you. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language that is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“Redefine what it means to “be a man.” After all, some of the impulses deemed “masculine” — like exerting power over others — are also behind the exploitation of women’s bodies and the earth’s resources. If gender roles are toxic for people and the planet, it’s time to rethink them.”— Justine Calma, grist.org
“Eco-friendly behaviors like shopping with a reusable grocery bag are perceived as more feminine, so men are less inclined to do them.”— Justine Calma, grist.org
“I’ve realised that most men, good men, the men that I love, there is a cut-off. Men simply cannot understand what abuse is like on a daily level.”— Minnie Driver, theguardian.com
“Why do we need to talk about the redemption of men when we are right in the middle of the salvation of women? Not even the middle, but the very beginning? Why are we obligated to care about salvaging male careers when we have just begun to tell the stories that have plagued us for lifetimes? It seem…”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“The worse and most common way people feed rape culture is by making girls change their clothes in their houses because men are present... Boys walk around without shirts & nobody will say anything because we’re already programmed to think that they have nothing to sexualize.”— Asia Cheyanne, twitter.com
“Women have to do an impossible dance of being both ‘feminine’ enough not to be threatening, but ‘masculine’ enough to be taken seriously.”— Jennifer Siebel Newsom, refinery29.com
“The gendered assumption is that men are the problem solvers because women are too emotional... But who is really solving the bulk of the world's problems at home and in the office?”— Dr. Michele Ramsey, harpersbazaar.com
“In 2003, the European Commission started keeping a database to monitor the numbers of men and women in key decision-making positions in Europe. The statistics show that only 4% of executive-level positions in the largest publicly-listed companies in the EU are held by women. Things aren’t much bette…”— Debating Europe, debatingeurope.eu
“What’s a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she’s wrong about what it’s like to be herself?”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“We have this kind of male pride thing. We say, ‘I can look after myself. I don’t need to talk to anyone,’ and it’s a complete fallacy. Not communicating helps to kill us.”— Mike Jenn, nytimes.com
“No offense, but, uh, men being in charge has never done me any good.”— Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett, twitter.com
“Men desperately need to learn the difference between being attacked and simply not being catered to.”— Melissa McEwan, shakesville.com
“Why can’t I sit with my legs spread? What’s so shameful about what I keep between them?”— Mia Morgan, fawnbabe.tumblr.com
“My female identity has been shaped by a biased, hypocritical excuse based on ridiculous gender roles: ‘It’s just how it is.’ All my life, I have asked them why, and all they said was ‘It’s just how it is.’ And it didn’t matter whether I’ve asked men or women.”— Mia Morgan, fawnbabe.tumblr.com
“We’ve been taught a woman’s body will cause men to sin. We’re told that if a woman shows too much of her body men will do stupid things. Let’s be clear: a woman’s body is not dangerous to you. Her body will not cause you harm. It will not make you do stupid things. If you do stupid things it is beca…”— Nate Pyle, huffingtonpost.com
“It really is crazy that the word “feminist” can have negative connotations in 2014. It upsets me that the younger generation of women think it’s a dirty word, and associate it with a kind of militantism or a sense of female superiority. It’s not. It just means liberation, and equality.”— Natalie Dormer, thedailybeast.com
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety on the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis…”— Dale Spender, amazon.com