“Why are those characters running and jumping, and that girl character is watching and giggling at the side?
Why, when I was at school, were no celebrated scientists, musicians, or playwrights, women? Why are we only taught about the achievements of men?
Why, when women unite and come together with their voices raised, does the term 'witch hunt' get bandied around?
Why are some of my natural characteristics referred to as 'tomboy'?”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“In the end I think change really does begin at home, at the dinner table, in a conversation, in split seconds, in quit determined moments.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“We so often write about how gender limits us, whereas perhaps a better approach is to think about what we can achieve in spite of the way society limits us through its construction of gender norms.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“Whichever decision that you take, it would have been set that way in any case. We could never run from our destiny.”
“No matter who you are, if in your mind you are born a girl, you will grow to be a women through experience. It is not a biological process, it is not losing your virgnity, it is not giving birth or raising children, nor is it a thing that can be calculated or defined: it is a staggeringly ineffable, gorgeous uphill battle from chaos towards a chosen selfhood of contentment, self-belief, self-love, and empowerment.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“We see those years of negative treatment by men, by institutions, by the patriarchy, by society at large. We see it. We challenge it, we stand up to it, and we change it.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“Basia, men are beasts.”
Source: The Art of Finding Witness
“Of course I never mention it to them any more, - I am too wise, - but I keep watch of it all the same.
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.”
Source: "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition
“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again.
She is the protagonist of a Love Story.”
Source: To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction