There is, I must admit, something very satisfying about making things from scratch, to know every dish in a meal was made by your own hands. As a lazy person, I'm a fan of premade things, but it was a...
It’s amazing to me that it’s still considered a notable, commendable trait –‘Oh, she’s a well-known feminist’ –in a woman, or a girl, or a man, or a boy. That that is the unusual thing. Really, it sho...
In his 1964 talk on feminism, Winnicott says something he's been saying all along. ...We find that the trouble is not so much that everyone was inside and then born, but that at the very beginning eve...
I've learned that a certain amount of self-doubt is a good tool for correcting, understanding, listening, and progressing - though too much is paralyzing and total self-confidence produces arrogant id...
God is not a racist.God is not a sexist.God is not a tribalist.God is not a chauvinist.God is not a fascist.God is not an elitist.God is a philanthropist.God is a pacifist.God is a feminist.God is a p...
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is sur...
But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What if you step out? Where do you sit at the reunion? How do y...
While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female athletes throw their javelins, kick their s...
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.
I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!
But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace.
It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age...
In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you
As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down.
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilightNo I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can...
I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it.
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other w