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> [“Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's. As a kid growing up with books and films and stories instead of friends, that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/men-grow-up-expecting-to-be-the-hero-of-their-own-story-women-grow-up-2/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

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## More by Laurie Penny

> [“Donald Trump is a bloviating freakshow of the id whose job it is to articulate the ugliest parts of the modern psyche with enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/donald-trump-is-a-bloviating-freakshow-of-the-id-whose-job-it-is-to/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/almost-every-time-i-speak-to-teenagers-particularly-young-female/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“It has been noted that many of the soi-disant ‘disruptive’ products being marketed as game changers by Silicon Valley startup kids are things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/it-has-been-noted-that-many-of-the-soi-disant-disruptive-products/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“Men, particularly nerdy men, are socialised to blame women – usually their peers and/or the women they find sexually desirable – for the trauma…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/men-particularly-nerdy-men-are-socialised-to-blame-women-usually/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/at-seventy-one-when-i-met-her-she-was-small-and-delicate-and/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/public-career-feminists-have-been-more-concerned-with-getting-more/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/the-problem-is-capitalism-the-problem-is-that-in-order-to-sell-seven/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/without-courage-our-generation-is-doomed-to-another-decade-of/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“It is not elitist to look fascism in the face and reject it. It is not anti-democratic to carry on believing in a society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/it-is-not-elitist-to-look-fascism-in-the-face-and-reject-it-it-is-not/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“every groundswell of idealism has salesmen scampering in its wake.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/every-groundswell-of-idealism-has-salesmen-scampering-in-its-wake/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/those-who-are-so-eager-for-women-and-girls-to-go-back-to-the-kitchen/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“I’m sure that Trump wants to sit in a shiny chair in the Oval Office and have people tell him all day that he’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/i-m-sure-that-trump-wants-to-sit-in-a-shiny-chair-in-the-oval-office/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/if-all-women-on-earth-woke-up-tomorrow-feeling-truly-positive-and/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/men-grow-up-expecting-to-be-the-hero-of-their-own-story-women-grow-up/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

> [“Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anything in the meat and matter of our living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-penny/girls-are-better-at-this-sort-of-labour-often-called-emotional-labour/)

[Laurie Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-penny/)

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