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Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.
Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.
I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.
Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”
I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.
I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.
As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.
Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.
I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.
If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.
The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.
How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.
If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag.
Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.
As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman
I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.
If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.
Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.
People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.
Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.
It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.
While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.
There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete’s sake.
I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.
I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.
People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.
When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?