Amanda Marcotte famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#Baby #Monsters #Care
The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?
-- Amanda Marcotte

#Thinking #Expression #Feminist
Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas donâ€™t hold up well under scrutiny.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#Religious #Ideas #Special
I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#Women #People #Doubt
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#People #Perfect #Tools
If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#Gay #Rights #Evil
I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#Jobs #Believe #Home
Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#Men #Ideas #Feminist
[T]here's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ...[S]aying you're 'pro-life' is more about marking you as a member of a tribe, pledging fealty to your faith or to your identity as a 'conservative,' for a lot of people.
-- Amanda Marcotte

#People #Choices #Pro Life

I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.
And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing.

Amanda Marcotte famous quotes

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