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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ’ He hesitated, ‘because you mayn’t find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“All things, when measured in spans of years, seem simple. But human lives do not occur in years, but slowly, day by day. A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.”
― Naomi Alderman, Disobedience

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“It's important that you know this because he will try to claim there was a battle. But there is no battle to be had between an armed man and a sleeping girl. Don't forget.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“Men will tell you that Gorgons are monsters, but men are fools. They cannot comprehend any beauty beyond what they can see. And what they see is a tiny part of what there is.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“I feel like becoming the monster he made.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

“You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

“The result of this deeply male-dominated culture is that the male experience, the male perspective, has come to be seen as universal, while the female experience--that of half the global population, after all--is seen as, well, niche.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“When we exclude half of humanity from the production of knowledge we lose out on potentially transformative insights.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“The truth is that around the world, women continue to be disadvantaged by a working culture that is based on the ideological belief that male needs are universal.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“For millennia, medicine has functioned on the assumption that male bodies can represent humanity as a whole. As a result, we have a huge historical data gap when it comes to female bodies, and this is a data gap that is continuing to grow as researchers carry on ignoring the pressing ethical need to include female cells, animals and humans, in their research. That this is still going on in the twenty-first century is a scandal. It should be the subject of newspaper headlines worldwide. Women are dying, and the medical world is complicit. It needs to wake up.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Urban planning that fails to account for women's risk of being sexually assaulted is a clear violation of women's equal right to public spaces...”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“So a group of one hundred female teachers in Spanish would be referred to as ‘las profesoras’ – but as soon as you add a single male teacher, the group suddenly becomes ‘los profesores’. Such is the power of the default male.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“An analysis of 248 performance reviews collected from a variety of US-based tech companies found that women receive negative personality criticism that men simply don’t.7 Women are told to watch their tone, to step back. They are called bossy, abrasive, strident, aggressive, emotional and irrational. Out of all these words, only aggressive appeared in men’s reviews at all – ‘twice with an exhortation to be more of it’.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Women tend to sit further forward than men when driving. This is because we are on average shorter. Our legs need to be closer to reach the pedals, and we need to sit more upright to see clearly over the dashboard.49 This is not, however, the ‘standard seating position’. Women are ‘out of position’ drivers.50 And our wilful deviation from the norm means that we are at greater risk of internal injury on frontal collisions.51”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“One of her female professor held up a photo of an antler bone with 28 markings on it. ‘This’, she said, ‘was alleged to be mans first attempt at a calendar. Tell me’, she continued, ‘what man needs to know when 28 days have passed? I suspect that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar’.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“De nos jours, rien n'est plus mensonger que cette étiquette "pro-vie" dont s'affublent les militants antiavortements : un grand nombre d'entre eux sont aussi favorables à la peine de mort ou, aux Etats-Unis, à la libre circulation des armes (plus de quinze mille morts en 2017), et on ne le voit pas militer avec tant d'ardeur contre les guerres ni contre la pollution, dont on estime qu'elle a été responsable d'une mort sur six dans le monde en 2015. La vie ne les passionne que lorsqu'il s'agit de pourrir celles des femmes. Le natalisme est affaire de pouvoir, et non d'amour de l'humanité.”
― Mona Chollet, Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmes

“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”
― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

“But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are somethings you can't go through in life and become friends, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows