The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.

- Laurie Penny

If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.

- Laurie Penny

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienat…

- Laurie Penny

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

- Laurie Penny

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

- Laurie Penny

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many …

- Laurie Penny

The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral univers…

- Laurie Penny

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I refuse to burn my …

- Laurie Penny

The 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