Quotes by : Laurie Penny

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms’,....

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting....

Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anything....

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can....

We can have everything we want as long as what we want is a life spent searching for exhausting work....

We were there too, the other geeks and weird kids whose lives were hellish at school, who escaped into....

Only by remembering to say 'no' will the women of 21st century regain their voice and remember their....

Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what....

This is stupid. There's work to be done. Tomorrow tens of thousands of us are going to take to the streets....

Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit....