Quotes from Laurie Penny

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.

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.

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

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.

The fact that 'attention seeking' is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.