Quote preview background for Kirsty Eagar
People save their strong opinions for women. Why don__ they look at men? If I have to read another book or see another movie about a woman being courageous, I__l throw up. Where are the books and movies about the men who do this stuff? But no, it__ always about the women. They not only have to get through it, they__e supposed to stand up, become a symbol, allow their whole lives to become derailed and defined by it. What if you don__ want to? People bang on about women having the right to make choices__ell, they need to realise women have the right to choose in these matters, too.
Kirsty Eagar Summer Skin
Turn into a Quote Card

Quote Detail

People save their strong opinions for women. Why don__ they look at men? If I have to read another book or see another movie about a woman being courageous, I__l throw up. Where are the books and movies about the men who do this stuff? But no, it__ always about the women. They not only have to get through it, they__e supposed to stand up, become a symbol, allow their whole lives to become derailed and defined by it. What if you don__ want to? People bang on about women having the right to make choices__ell, they need to realise women have the right to choose in these matters, too.
KE
Kirsty Eagar

Summer Skin

Quick Answer

What this quote page tells you

This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.

Related Quotes

More quote cards from the same area

"

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

MW
Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman