{"quotes":[{"text":"Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to.","author":"George Sand","tags":["faults","gender","imperfections","inequality","men","mysogyny","submission","violence","women"],"id":38894,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of 'but what will I wear?' Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["fashion","mysogyny"],"id":138685,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["freedom","gender-equality","honor","mysogyny","propriety","repression","women","womens-rights"],"id":212269,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our sex is void of reason Know ‘tis a slander now, but once was tre.","author":"Anne Bradstreet","tags":["clichés","elizabeth-i","empowerment","equality","gender","mysogyny","stereotypes","women"],"id":239931,"author_id":"Anne+Bradstreet"},{"text":"There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.","author":"Beth Cohen","tags":["alternative-realities","change","chauvinism","crone","crone-power","crone-wisdom","dystopian","empowerment","equality","families","fantasy","female-empowerment","feminism","fiction","fight","freedom","future","harmony","lesbian","love","matriarchy","mysogyny","passion","patriarchy","persist","protest","rape","resistance","safety","strength","struggle","survival","woman","women","women-power"],"id":355239,"author_id":"Beth+Cohen"},{"text":"Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should not be remarked upon, let alone honoured… Because equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. And the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. 'So, why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you’re still asking me that ques.","author":"Joss Whedon","tags":["empowerment","equality","gender","mysogyny","strong-female-characters","women"],"id":358170,"author_id":"Joss+Whedon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}