“I want every girl to have his choices.”
– Kathleen Hanna quoted in Smart Ass

“We, and others, call this intersection of culture and feminism “Girlie.”  Girlie says we’re not broken, and our desires aren’t simply booby traps set by the patriarchy.  Girlie encompasses the tabooed symbols of women’s feminine enculturation – Barbie dolls, makeup, fashion magazines, high heels [and I would add pin-up imagery] – and says using them isn’t shorthand for ‘we’ve been duped.’”
– Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards in Manifesta

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
– Virginia Woolf

“It seems that in most conversations about sexism, men wanna immediately take the focus off of how sexism affects women and put it onto how feminism affects them, and once again, men are placed in the middle of the action…The assumption that because

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someone is Pro-girl means that they are anti-male is stupi…Why is the emphasis always put on how a feminist feels about men, and not on how she feels about herself and other women?”
– Bikini Kill

“Feminism has always held within it multitudes of ideologies, tactics and priorities.”
– Lisa Jervis in We Don’t Need Another Wave

“Third wave thinkers have been comfortable with redefining feminism to include any woman who believes that inequality between women and men exists and affects theirs lives, and acts toward balancing the scales. A pointedly individualistic and anti-elitist approach to feminism, it looks as much to pop culture as politics for influences and strategies.”
– Maria Elena Buszek

“We argue that the third wave has less to do with a neat generational divide than with a cultural context: the third wave consists of those of us who have developed our sense of identity in a world shaped by technology, global capitalism, multiple models of sexuality, changing national demographics, and declining economic vitality.”
– Rory Dicker & Alison Piepmeier in Catching a Wave