154 quotes found
Writer · English · 1975
English writer (born 1975)
“In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do.”
“Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.”
“The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.”
“Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.”
“But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.”
“Its amazing to me that its still considered a notable, commendable trait Oh, shes a well-known feminist in a woman, or a girl, or a man, or a boy. That that is the unusual thing. Really, it should ...”
“Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Window issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on "All the Patriarchal Bullshit.”
“In a world where you can get a spare kidney, a black-market Picasso or a ticket to ride into space, why cant I see some actual sex? Some actual fucking from people who want to fuck each other? Some...”
“Because theres a silent, shrugging, stoical acceptance of all the things in the world we can never be part of: shorts, swimming pools, strappy dresses, country walks, roller-skating, ra-ra skirts, ...”
“My fat years were when I was not human shaped. I was a 16-stone triangle, with inverted triangle legs, and no real neck. And thats because I wasnt doing human things. I didnt walk or run or dance o...”
“There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.”
“Every woman who chooses--joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of her own free will and desire--not to have a child does womankind a massive favor in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to ...”
“In the 20th century- an age in thrall to the new- women turn out to be the newest thing of all; still packed up in cellophane, still folded up in the box, having played dead for the length of histo...”
“A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of ever...”
“hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible”
“The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. Thats how you learn who you are.”
“...for all that people have tried to abuse it and disown it. "feminism" is still the word we need. No other word will do. And let's face it, there has been no other word, save "Girl Power" -- which...”
“..in the 21st century, wedont need to march against size zero models, risible pornography,lap-dancing clubs and Botox. We dont need to riot, or go on hungerstrike. Theres no need to throw ourselves...”
“...it's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the ...”
“Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.”
