“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… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of lies. Stories can exaggerate and offend and they always, always matter. — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump is a bloviating freakshow of the id whose job it is to articulate the ugliest parts of the modern psyche with enough… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“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… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Men, particularly nerdy men, are socialised to blame women – usually their peers and/or the women they find sexually desirable – for the trauma… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
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… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“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… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“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… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
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… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“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… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
