61 Quotes by Laura Bates

Why do we assume that educating a criminal is merely helping him commit more sophisticated crimes? Why can’t we assume that an education can give this person the tools to make more acceptable choices?

There are never any victims who don’t matter, because this isn’t about men versus women.

It is an absolute magic, and the magic has little to do with what Shakespeare has to say. You can memorize every cool quote and be as clueless as you were before reading. So it is not Shakespeare’s offering that invokes this evolution. The secret, the magic, is YOU!

Because it isn’t just about the individual incidents; it’s about the collective impact on everything else – the way you think about yourself, the way you approach public spaces and human interaction, the limits you place on your own aspirations and the things you stop yourself from doing before you even try because of bitter learned experience.

What a child experiences between the ages of seven and ten will determine his actions as a teenager and an adult.” I.

Prison is being entrapped by those self-destructive ways of thinking.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

Each time a girl sees science toys under a ‘boys’ sign, she is told science is not suitable for her.

It occurred to me that this was one of the few decisions that a segregated prisoner could make: to talk or not to talk. For Newton, that was the question.