“The conversations about them will change, and they should. It’s up to the following generations to figure out how to continue those conversations and make them their own—to keep talking, in schools, in activism and art—and trust that we care.”— Molly Ringwald, newyorker.com
“The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.”— Betty Dodson, truth-out.org
“You seem to be so progressive, but when it comes to the sexes, it's like we're in the 1950s. Woman in the shadows while we're still supporting the men.”— Jason Katims, Sarah Lane, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com
“Very few women in public life do not worry that their voices are too high or too light or too shrill to command respect. Margaret Thatcher trained for years with a vocal coach to make her voice sound more like those of the other Hounourable Members and still she earned the nickname Attila The Hen.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“Why do so many of us, as female artists, have to go to war to tell our stories when we have so much to offer? Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to maintain our dignity? I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.com
“Sexual harassment is just the symptom. Institutional sexism is the disease.”— Charlotte Alter, twitter.com
“As for the male chauvinist stuff, I am a male chauvinist; women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.”— Larry Flynt, books.google.com
“In the past, ironic misandry has been a popular way for women to deal with living in a world where they’re exposed to frequent abuse at the hands of powerful men. Yet, if a woman takes to Facebook to vent about how she “wants to imprison men and milk them for their male tears,” she could quickly los…”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“pro tip: if everyone you admire keeps disappointing you with awful sex scandals, try admiring more women.”— Laura Bradley, twitter.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
“Remember when Winona Ryder shoplifted once and it destroyed her career, but men can rape and abuse and still have careers lmao fun stuff.”— Josh, twitter.com
“Men in Hollywood are frequently afforded second chances and comebacks... Women in Hollywood, however, aren’t afforded the same luxury. If a woman behaves badly, says the wrong thing or makes a mistake, they’re sidelined. When a man behaves badly, he’s just intense and it can be attributed to their f…”— Amy O'Connor, dailyedge.ie
“Men remain the gatekeepers to money and life experience, but we still see girls and young women as the ones with the power ― the power to cajole and seduce it from their daddies and their boyfriends. The solution, apparently, is for women simply to stop doing this, to stop trying to exploit and comp…”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“Our suspicion of ambitious women is so great that we side-eye them for, we assume, playing the game, far more so than the male gatekeepers who make the rules.”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“Ever since second-wave feminism became part of the political left, there have been men who, ostensibly enlightened in the realm of gender relations, are in fact deeply misogynist and believe that their progressive street cred somehow obviates their attitudes about women, attitudes as regressive as t…”— James Kirchick, thedailybeast.com
“The idea that feminism is about “equality for all genders” has become increasingly fashionable. And yet, to me, nothing says misogyny like defining feminism as equality for all—as if focusing a movement, or policy, or activism on women alone is taboo. Or too risky. The knee-jerk, “all lives matter”…”— Marcie Bianco, qz.com
“Strict hiring quotas aren’t an effective, long-term solution to sexism, just as equality under the law does not ensure the equal treatment of women.”— Marcie Bianco, qz.com
“Not only are women expected to weather sexual violence, intimate partner violence, workplace discrimination, institutional subordination, the expectation of free domestic labor, the blame for our own victimization, and all the subtler, invisible cuts that undermine us daily, we are not even allowed…”— Lindy West, nytimes.com
“If you steal money, you probably get arrested and convicted, because everybody says stealing is wrong. But if you do something that is very sexist or racist, because there still is a critical mass of bias in this country, it takes more cumulative instances for it to be recognized.”— Gloria Steinem, thedailybeast.com