Sophie Gilbert > Quotes

“Misogyny will always occupy any space it’s given.”
― Sophie Gilbert, On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice

“The things we watch, listen to, read, wear, write, and share dictate in large part how we internalize and project what we're worth.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“Re-vision—the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction—is for us more than a chapter in cultural history: It is an act of survival. Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. Adrienne Rich (1972)”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“A media psychologist told me that people tend to deal with stress and trauma in one of two ways—either by anesthetizing themselves with comforting fluff or by leaning fully toward the thing that scares them.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves