Taking Up Space Quote by Libba Bray

Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever…

— Libba Bray

“Still, far too often girls are given the message that their bodies, their lives, and their femaleness must be apologized for. Have you noticed…

— Christiane Northrup

“Maybe girls apologized too much.”

— Goldy Moldavsky

“One of the biggest mistakes women do is, they think that One day 'he' will realize, apologize and come back..”

— Himmilicious

“I don't like when people apologize for something they had nothing to do with”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think that, as women, we're often asked to apologize for our own power, or we're asked to undercut ourselves, and it's deemed unattractive…

— Miriam Shor

“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we…

— Elizabeth Tambascio

I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize…

— Shonda Rhimes

“Emotionally immature people don’t step back and think about how their behavior impacts others. There’s no cringe factor for them, so they seldom apologize…

— Lindsay C. Gibson

Girls if we hurt them we apologize, if they hurt us we also apologize.

— William Yap

“There is little worse than when the person to whom you want to apologize is having great sex in your room.”

— Thomm Quackenbush