Miranda

“Likability is a con, and we're falling for it[...] Is there such a thing as a likable woman? Can you think of one? And if she exists, could she be anything but the ultimate manifestation of everything we hate about the water we swim in, everything we're forced to be? Likability in a sexist, racist culture is not objective - it's compulsory femininity, the gender binary, invisible labor, whiteness, smallness, sweetness. It's letting them do it. If someone is universally likable, I don't trust that person.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“Good people don't bow their heads and bite their tongues while other good people suffer. Good people are not complicit.”
― Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching

“No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming