899 Quotes About Feminist

Every little thing was not going to be all right but sometimes in life, you just needed to pretend. Otherwise, you’d swallow the whole bottle of Ativan and be done with it.

I had no concrete details, no proof, only dark suggestions whispered between women in the industry over drinks, quietly, the fear of a libel suit or vendetta ever present.

Whoever said dogs can't speak was never interested in learning another language.

I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

She never liked to be called pretty -for she was a wildflower. Roaming alone through deep woods not caring if she would lose one of her petals.

She’d tell her daughters someday: ‘If you don’t feel safe enough to yell back, you’re not safe enough. My babies, that is not love.

Then let her be a strong girl,” she said. “Let the earth shape her into a wild thing, and let her dance like the wind and stand like a stone. Let your fears not become hers.

I felt like no one was really looking out for me, that I was marginal and incidental. I compensated by being spongelike, impressionable, and available to whatever and whoever provided the most comfort, the most sense of belonging. I was learning two sets of skills simultaneously: adaptation - linguistic and aesthetic - in order to fit in, but also, how to survive on my own.