Lydia

“One merely had to imagine a woman candidate doing what Trump did, from lying to leering, to understand what latitude masculinity possesses. "No advanced step take by women has been so bitterly contested as that of speaking in public," Susan B. Anthony said in 1900. "For nothing which they have attempted, not even to secure the suffrage, have they been so abused, condemned and antagonized." Or as Mary Beard put it last year, "We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America

“Generally, change in our society is incremental, I think. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I have been supportive of my wife since the beginning of time, and she has been supportive of me. It’s not sacrifice; it’s family.” —Marty Ginsburg, 1993”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“So when RBG was asked how she had managed to have such an extraordinary marriage, she often answered by saying that Marty himself was extraordinary, and he saw the same in her.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg