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“Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least often get the most help. I”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered. You”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“Feminists don’t single out rape jokes because rape is “worse” than other crimes—we single them out because we live in a culture that actively strives to shrink the definition of sexual assault; that casts stalking behaviors as romance; blames victims for wearing the wrong clothes, walking through the wrong neighborhood, or flirting with the wrong person; bends over backwards to excuse boys-will-be-boys misogyny; makes the emotional and social costs of reporting a rape prohibitively high; pretends that false accusations are a more dire problem than actual assaults; elects officials who tell rape victims that their sexual violation was “god’s plan”; and convicts in less than 5 percent of rape cases that go to trial.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists