Eleanor B

“And as I will show, failing to include the perspective of women is a huge driver of an unintended male bias that attempts (often in good faith) to pass itself off as ‘gender neutral’. This is what de Beauvoir meant when she said that men confuse their own point of view with the absolute truth.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“We identified with her, which should have made us kinder but instead made us mean. We felt more comfortable siding with guys like Doug because their side was safer.”
― Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year

“When I was young I’d always known that the antidote to my loneliness would be to fall in love someday. I looked forward to love more than anything else about growing up. More than leaving home or learning to drive or doing drugs—things that other kids were excited about. I didn’t care about those things. The only thing I wanted was to be known completely by someone, to know someone completely.”
― Hanna Halperin, I Could Live Here Forever

“Maybe it’s a trade-off, some unwritten rule of the universe, that the smaller a girl’s body is, the bigger her personality is allowed to be.”
― Kelsey Cox, Party of Liars