Laurie Penny

“Donald Trump is a bloviating freakshow of the id whose job it is to articulate the ugliest parts of the modern psyche…

— Laurie Penny

“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself…

— 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…

— Laurie Penny

“Men, particularly nerdy men, are socialised to blame women – usually their peers and/or the women they find sexually desirable – for…

— Laurie Penny

“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.”

— Laurie Penny

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too…

— 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…

— Laurie Penny

“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.”

— 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…

— Laurie Penny

“every groundswell of idealism has salesmen scampering in its wake.”

— Laurie Penny

Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it…

— 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…

— Laurie Penny

If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe…

— Laurie Penny

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in…

— 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…

— Laurie Penny

“Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave…

— Laurie Penny

The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.

— Laurie Penny

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people…

— Laurie Penny

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every…

— Laurie Penny

“Every so often I wonder why I didn’t become a restaurant critic. They get free dinners. Being a feminist journalist, I get…

— Laurie Penny

“Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in…

— Laurie Penny

“Patriarchy, it turns out, is prettiest when it's on fire.”

— Laurie Penny

“We were there too, the other geeks and weird kids whose lives were hellish at school, who escaped into books and computers,…

— Laurie Penny

“This, however, is OKCupid, the vast, weird pink-and-blue toned jungle of the id masquerading as a dating site, where rare birds of…

— Laurie Penny

That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems…

— Laurie Penny