Laura Bates Quotes

Our experiences of all forms of gender prejudice - from daily sexism to distressing harassment to se...

If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone...

The incidents that go unwitnessed definitely help to keep sexism off the radar, and unacknowledged p...

When we suggest victims can stop rape, we also (however unintentionally) imply that rape is an inevi...

As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and questio...

One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double b...

This is a battle that we will win. Because women are wittier, brighter, stronger and braver than a m...

...this pattern of casual intrusion whereby women could be leered at, touched, harassed, and abused ...

This combination of ageism and sexism was also blatant in the Boston Herald's treatment of sixty-thr...

Sexism is often an invisible problem. This is partly because it's so frequently manifest in situatio...

How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be ca...

Women who lead, read

The more stories I heard, the more I tried to talk about the problem. And yet time and time again I ...

A slut isn’t a person, it’s in the eye of the beholder. Like beauty, or an annoying eyelash. We deci...

Girls are not only being denied access to scientific and adventurous toys, they're also presented wi...

Tired of cold callers asking to speak to the 'man in the house', now I put them on to my 6-year old ...

This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know ...

Yes, for the love of God young women, come along – learn your limits. Or, rather, know society’s lim...

Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare...

The very fact that it is necessary in the twenty-first century to explain why it's not okay to publi...

Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem.

One day, in the very early months of the project, I read several entries in a single week from girls...

Disbelief is the first great silencer.