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The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

According to pop culture, women are either searching for a man, with a man, or getting over one.

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

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.

By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

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.

Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

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.

So remember, this is definitely a screwed-if-you-do, screwed-if-you-don't situation. You just remember to say, Screw them.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn't matter how much we love them. They hate us

Women politicians have definitely been known to fuck over other women. Democratic Louisiana

but there is a difference between loving someone and having the ability to feel that love.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

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.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier
it means he's a scumbag.

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

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.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

There's nothing revolutionary about reinforcing the virgin/whore dichotomy.

Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.

If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

All women live in objectification the way fish live in water. - Catharine A. MacKinnon WHEN