Final Rating:
5/5
Date of Completion: 19/10/2023
Published by: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780008115296
No review, just some quotes I loved:
- “Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice.”
- “My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.’ All of us, women and men, must do better.”
- “We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case.”
- “Why should a woman’s success be a threat to a man?”
- “The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognising how we are.”
- “Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
- “I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be.”
- “Culture does not make people. People make culture”
- “Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”
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