“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.”
Tag: Feminism
Girl, Woman, Other: Book of the Month (June 2020)
“Be a person with knowledge, not just opinions.”
Whose Story Is This?
“We are, as a culture, moving to a future with more people and more voices and more possibilities. Some people are being left behind, not because the future is intolerant of them but because they are intolerant of this future.”
The Testaments: Book of the Month (December 2019)
“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
The Handmaid’s Tale
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
First In The Fight
The stories of the twenty women who shaped Manchester.
We Should All Be Feminists
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man."
