“Eventually the young woman realizes how often it is in her self-interest to make herself desirable. She learns how to arrange herself to generate a kind of reaction. As children learn behaviors by example, so does she learn sexy from the mirror. Media provides the perfect surface (charmed, shiny, sl…”— Larissa Pham, camgirlproject.tumblr.com
“No offense, but, uh, men being in charge has never done me any good.”— Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett, twitter.com
“Stop chasing after boys who don’t even make the effort to message you, chase you, or get to know you. You are sick of people who make you feel they don’t want you enough. Find someone who knows what they want. Find someone who knows what they want is you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“I feel like young girls are told that they have to be a princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior – a fighter. If I was going to be a princess, I’d be a warrior princess.”— Emma Watson, marieclaire.co.uk
“You are a Witch and by saying aloud, "I am a Witch" three times and thinking about that. You are a Witch by being female, untamed, angry, joyous and immortal.”— W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), sleepy-cactus.tumblr.com
“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”— John Berger, amazon.com
“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly ful…”— Kim Kiyun, rosalarian.tumblr.com
“'I’m not a feminist. I love men.' are two sentences as unrelated as 'I’m not an accountant. I love archeology.'”— Erin Gloria Ryan, twitter.com
“Men do not live in cultures where the degradation and brutalisation of men at the hands of women is the stuff of pornography, entertainment and advertising. Men do not live with the consciousness that they are being hunted by women who would take sexual delight in dismembering them simply on account…”— Sheila Jeffreys, amazon.com
“If it's so normal and well-intended, why don't men tell other men to smile?”— Abi Crutchfield, lustforagreatperhaps.tumblr.com
“I really am not interested in whether men are made uncomfortable by feminism because I am made uncomfortable by men every day of my life.”— Anonymous, ohblimeyy.tumblr.com
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“I'm very much against the arrangement of procreation, at least for humans. If I could have designed it, it would be a toss-up who gets pregnant, the man or woman. Boy, that would end rape for one thing. And 'woman artist'? Disgusting.”— Dorothea Tanning, amazon.com
“People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.”— Elizabeth Meriwether, brainyquote.com