22 Quotes by Jennifer Baumgardner

If it's comfortable it's not feminist - unless of course we're talking about shoes.

Researchers have discovered that "stereotype threat," that is, the mere presence of a preferred group (white or male) diminishes the performance of an under preferred group.

Grizzled white men poured drinks and dispensed dubious wisdom. Young white women in tight clothes delivered the food and the smiles and said "sorry" all the time. Short brown men cooked it all and cleaned it all up, and still managed to rise above the racial oppression of the United states to make kissing sounds at us waitresses whenever we were in the kitchen.

The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual’s own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We’re the feminists in my life – and we are also mothers and daughters and hot and neurotic and existing on wine and coffee and disappointed and brave.

As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.

She’s that bad boy you want, but in a girl who believes in recycling. Freud described the kinds of feelings I had for Amy as loving the same person twice, as a woman and as a man.

If you wait until you are perfect and free of conflicts, you will never change anything in the world.