Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.

Here's a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife...

...watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them,...

In the novels I had read whenever lovely woman stooped to folly she had a baby. The cause was put with infinite precaution, sometimes indeed suggested only by a row of asterisks, but the result was...

Where beautiful women in 1950s culture got married or seduced, in modern culture the beauty gets raped.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves. Critic John Berger's well-known quote has...

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.

Sex - positive feminism embraces the entire range of human sexuality and is based on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom. - Madison Young

Many women do not join organized resistance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but...

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

But it would have made them suspect. Women who have power are always feared

When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.

Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?

We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn't do this. We mustn't play Hot Potato with our pain. Let's...

We are not members, . . . we are commodities. . . . When our men have used us up so that we look sixty when we're thirty and our wombs have literally dropped out of our bodies onto our spotless...

By leaving, we are not necessarily disobeying the men according to the Bible, because we, the women, do not know exactly what is in the Bible, being unable to read it. Furthermore, the only reason why...

I am a woman with wings,' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish.

When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them...

Luckily, I was not born a white man.**This has never before been said in the history of humanity.

Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not?I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't. It would be...

... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it...

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly-girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience.

I resisted feminism in my late teens and my twenties because i worried that feminism wouldn't allow me to be the mess of a woman i knew myself to be. But then i began to learn more about feminism. i...

This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men {as readers, critics, and editors} can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.