“She's the first African-American woman to lead an NBA team and says she better not be the last. More than a year after being tapped as CEO of the embattled Dallas Mavericks, Cynthia Marshall says she has turned around the organization's culture and has greatly diversified its top ranks.”— Haley Draznin, CNN Business, cnn.com
“Gender equality struggles cannot be fought selectively; they have to involve all social groups.”— Katrín Jakobsdóttir, CNN, cnn.com
“When you shine brightly, you give others permission to shine with you. Joy is your birthright. Freedom is your birthright. Claim them and live your truth.”— Gabby Bernstein, twitter.com
“I really resent the idea that just because someone does not believe that women owe men sex, that boys are naturally superior, and that feminism is a conspiracy to destroy the human race, that that person ‘hates men.’ I care about men too much to think so poorly of them.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“Polite request: it would be great if the world could stop being extravagantly and specifically horrible to women and queer people for a little while. Not only would it make the whole planet more habitable, I would really rather like to write about something else for a bit.”— Laurie Penny, twitter.com
“There are a number of women who are preachers who are preaching the Gospel today, teaching the Gospel today, and they are being very successful at it and they are meeting people's needs. You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God.”— Charles F. Stanley, bpnews.net
“Dreaming a world where we value the careers of our girls like we do of our boys.”— Lisa Lucas, twitter.com
“She is innocent too — like a baby — and she worships her husband. That is an error! To worship a man is a great mistake — she will find it so. Men are not to be too much loved — no, no.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“It seems to me that saying the change must be collective and come from all of society is also a way of shrugging and deciding that individual change is useless and impossible. If you're waiting for society to change to stop treating women badly, something is wrong with you.”— Catherynne Valente, twitter.com
“Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.”— John McCain, pbs.org
“I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.”— Martha Stewart, oprah.com
“I don’t think feminism is necessarily progressing by the trends that it creates. It’s coming from women doing things, by doing what they want to do. It’s not about shaving or not shaving, it’s about doing what you need and what you want.”— Jessie Andrews, dazeddigital.com
“In the early 1990s, newly minted Internet evangelists promised a gender-free utopia. Hierarchical identifiers like race and class would be obscured online, they argued, and biased judgements would therefore become obsolete. That didn’t quite work out.”— Leah Fessler, work.qz.com
“Okay. Entertainment industry, time to stop using the phrases 'Smart Strong Women' and 'Strong Female Leads'. There are no Dumb Weak Women. A smart strong woman is just a WOMAN. Also? 'Women' are not a TV trend -- we're half the planet.”— Shonda Rhimes, twitter.com
“When I was in the third grade, I thought that I was gay ‘Cause I could draw, my uncle was and I kept my room straight I told my mom, tears rushing down my face She's like, "Ben, you've loved girls since before Pre-K!"”— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert, open.spotify.com
“I hope the entertainment industry will never be the same. . . .It's painful for change, but it's needed.”— Jessica Chastain, twitter.com
“I’m not married, because I can’t stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.”— Sarah J. Maas, Dorian Havilliard, amazon.com