Laurie Penny Quotes
- Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated…
- The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
- 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…
- 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 I…
- The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid…
- Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and…
- If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.
- Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might…
- That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much…