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. Itโs also where the knives are kept.
Laurie PennyThe fact that โattention seekingโ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
Laurie PennyFemininity 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.
Laurie PennyThe 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.
Laurie Penny