Top 20 Laurie Penny Quotes
#1. There is a princess in all our heads: she must be destroyed.
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#2. Feminism has never just been about liberating women from men, but about freeing every human being from the straitjacket of gender oppression.
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#3. Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of lies. Stories can exaggerate and offend and they always, always matter.
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#4. Sometimes you have to decide between doing what you love and being loveable, and the decision is always painful.
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#5. Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.
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#6. Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.
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#7. Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.
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#8. The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.
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#9. The fact that 'attention seeking' is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
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#10. If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.
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#11. Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms', when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.
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#12. The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.
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#13. One sure test of social privilege is how much anger you get to express without the threat of expulsion, arrest, or social exclusion,
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#14. If you're a woman and somebody calls you 'attention seeking', that's a sure way to tell you've made an impact.
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#15. Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It's also where the knives are kept.
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#16. Meanwhile: consider that time is a weapon.
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#17. The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame.
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#18. This, however, is OKCupid, the vast, weird pink-and-blue toned jungle of the id masquerading as a dating site, where rare birds of modern romance flutter amongst the night-terrors of human loneliness and despair and the suspicious skin irritants of late-night hook-uppery.
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#19. In this nominally freer and more equal world, most women end up doing more work, for less reward, and feeling pressured to conform more closely to gender norms.
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#20. The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral universe where people who do not work to create profit are considered less than human, and used as surplus labour to drive down the cost of wages.
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