“Woman is too volatile and spiritual, a being to be kept down by mere brute force," she [Elizabeth Packard] wrote. "You can cage a bird and thus keep her down on a level with her serpent-mate, but just give her the use of her powers, its freedom, and she will rise.”
“Those girls are all so brave, where adult heroines are all so bitter, and I so strongly dislike what has become clear since childhood: the facts of visibility and exclusion in these stories, and the way bravery and bitterness get so concentrated in literature, for women, because there’s not enough space for them in the real world.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“Worship of balls is but a prehistoric mania. There will be no balls without a vagina.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Grow a vagina.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“When a man hits a target, they call him a marksman. When I hit a target, they call it a trick. Never did like that much.”
“I was taught that it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was in itself a silence.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Speaking becomes both a way to engage in active self-transformation and a rite of passage where one moves from being object to being subject. Only as subjects can we speak. As objects, we remain voiceless—our beings defined and interpreted by others.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Easily threatened men always acted like fools.”
“No love can surpass the love of a mother, no care can surpass a sister's care. Yet a society run by balls and bananas, makes a hooker out of our mothers and sisters.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Beauty is demonstrably a cheat code for a slightly easier life. People just a little more likely to do you a favor, love just a little easier to access, the world just a little more welcoming.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology