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“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.”

Politics Women Feminism Elections Feminists Sarah Palin

Book:Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

Source: Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

“On some level, if not intellectual then animal, there has always been an understanding of the power of women's anger:that as an oppressed majority in the United States, women have long had within them the potential to rise up in fury, to take over a country in which they've never really been offered their fair or representative stake. Perhaps the reason that women's anger is so broadly denigrated--treated as so ugly, so alienating, and so irrational--is because we have known all along that with it came the explosive power to upturn the very systems that have sought to contain it. What becomes clear, when we look to the past with an eye to the future, is that the discouragement of women's anger--via silencing, erasure, and repression--stems from the correct understanding of those in power that in the fury of women lies the power to change the world.”

Politics Feminism Women S History U S History

Book:Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“I confess that I am now suspicious of nearly every attempt to code anger as unhealthy, no matter how well meaning or persuasive the source. I believe Stanton was correct: what is bad for women, when it comes to anger, are the messages that cause us to bottle it up, let it fester, keep it silent, feel shame, and isolation for ever having felt it or re-channel it in inappropriate directions. What is good for us is opening our mouths and letting it out, permitting ourselves to feel it and say it and think it and act on it and integrate it into our lives, just as we integrate joy and sadness and worry and optimism.”

Feminism Anger Feminist Women S Anger

Book:Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein's earliest and most vociferous accusers, recalled being asked "in a soft NPR voice, 'What if what you're saying makes men uncomfortable?' Good. I've been uncomfortable my whole life. Welcome to our world of discomfort.”

Feminism Anger Feminist Good And Mad

Book:Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“... this is probably why, as I was reporting for this book, nearly every woman I spoke to, especially in the month immediately following the inauguration of DT, described her anger as a thing of the past. I WAS angry (in interview we would say) but I am not angry anymore. I've taken my anger and turned it into action.”

Book:Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger