It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weathe

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

You have some balls."Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...

Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

I felt bad for the girls in my school, who flocked to prom like it was the second coming of Christ, complete with double-rainbows and unicorns.

We've never heardAbout a marvel quite so great,For all the heroes who have livedIn history can't measure upIn bravery against the Maid.