McKenna

“It is no coincidence that when women say things men don’t like, the response is often not a critique of their ideas, but a critique of their appearance. This is the logical outcome of seeing women as objects instead of as human beings.”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness

“For I am by no means confining you to fiction. If you would please me--and there are thousands like me--you would write books of travel and adventure, and research and scholarship, and history and biography, and criticism and philosophy and science. By so doing you will certainly profit the art of fiction. For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“In a different lab study, researchers found that compared to men assigned to play Pac-Man or The Sims, those who spent twenty-five minutes playing a sexualized video game called Leisure Suit Larry later rated sexual harassment of women as more acceptable.18 Men in the Leisure Suit condition were also quicker to identify words like slut, whore, and bitch in a word-identification task, suggesting that the objectifying imagery in the game primed them to think of women in these ways.”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness

“There is only one’s own mournful horror, one’s worthless moral vanity—which can do nothing. The bad news of the world, like most bad news, has no place to go. You tack it to the bulletin board part of your heart. You say look, you say see. That is all.”
― Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?