Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it’s like to call a man chickenshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control o — Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

The rise of feminist underpants is a weird twist on Karl Marx's theory of commodity fetishism, wherein consumer products — Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

Empowertising not only builds on the idea that any choice is a feminist choice if a self-labeled feminist deems it so, b — Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women — Sarah Moss

$Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fracture — Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power$

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

Empowerment wasn't defined as a static concept or standalone occurrence, but as an evolving way to rethink entire power — Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

They grab you by the breasts, they pluck your derriere, they stuff you in a pot, they saute you with sperm, they grab yo — Hélène Cixous

I listened to Howard Stern every morning in college. I loved Howard. I still do, though I had to achingly bow out as my — Lindy West

She will be your living hell. — David Bowie

In a time of feminism taken into account, there's a sense that if one's choices--even in something as minor as a favorit — Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful — Han Kang, The Vegetarian

In many ways, likability is a very elaborate lie, a performance, a code of conduct dictating the proper way to be. Chara — Roxanne Gay

Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it’s like to call a man chickenshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control of your life.

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