Femvolution: Join the Movement

"Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power." —Shonda Rhimes

You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female.

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back."