"I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know I am smart, I know I am kind and funny, and I know...
Disbelief is the first great silencer.
More Laura Bates quotes
"This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.
"Girls are not only being denied access to scientific and adventurous toys, they're also presented with such a narrow range of options that domesticity...
"How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be called is a woman, girly, a twat, a cunt, that he ne...
"One day, in the very early months of the project, I read several entries in a single week from girls who had been subjected to leering and shouting fr...
"Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem.
"The very fact that it is necessary in the twenty-first century to explain why it's not okay to publicly debate whether or not women are "asking" for s...
"When we suggest victims can stop rape, we also (however unintentionally) imply that rape is an inevitable aspect of life rather than an action deliber...
"As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and question their stories, and blame them for their own assa...
"One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double bound by a gender-biased definition of professional...
"The incidents that go unwitnessed definitely help to keep sexism off the radar, and unacknowledged problem we don't discuss. But so too do the regular...
"Tired of cold callers asking to speak to the 'man in the house', now I put them on to my 6-year old son... he sings them 'Sexy and I Know It'.
"This combination of ageism and sexism was also blatant in the Boston Herald's treatment of sixty-three-year-old Elizabeth Warren, whose 2012 Senate bi...
"Sexism is often an invisible problem. This is partly because it's so frequently manifest in situations where the only witnesses present are victim and...
"The more stories I heard, the more I tried to talk about the problem. And yet time and time again I found myself coming up against the same response: ...