Natasha Leggero Quotes

What an amazing feat for women’s liberation to no longer be expected to iron a man’s clothes all day so he can look good while he’s out, probably cheating on you.

I meet twenty-three-year-olds who need to watch a ten-second video on their phones to figure out how much milk to put in their coffee.

We’re told we can avoid these and many other even worse outcomes if we just buy the right food/toys/educational experiences. I’d pin a lot of my fears on the news and the internet, but this entire phenomenon—selling fear because fear sells—could describe all late-stage capitalism,

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” —ISABEL ALLENDE

I want my daughter to know that gender fluidity is real—but so is sexism. And that misogyny is proving to be a hard habit for humanity to break.

I don’t understand why everyone loves Disneyland. I don’t like long lines or cold turkey legs, and I don’t think Cinderella’s palace looks beautiful lit up at night because I’ve seen actual beautiful architecture. I wish we could divide up people between those who love Disneyland and those who don’t and all the “don’ts” could meet—I bet we would all really love each other’s company.

I’m not sure men realize the extent to which women are under the constant threat of strange men whipping out and/or aiming their penises at them. It can happen anywhere: the sidewalk, the subway, a male comedian’s dressing room.

My husband seems to love our daughter as much as I do with so much less of the fear. Is it because women are intellectually superior and more complex than men, which allows us to multitask and endows us with the ability to think many steps ahead? Or are women more fearful because we lack upper-body strength?

did you know that meditation apps in particular share and sell more of your data to spam than any other app?

While my vision of what feminism was and wasn’t contained a lot of flawed thinking, we’re also now better able to recognize that the feminist movement hasn’t always been as inclusive as it should be, leaving out the voices of women of color and working women and working mothers from less-advantaged economic backgrounds. For so long, so many of the spokespeople of the feminist movement were (and continue to be, in many cases) elite, educated white women.

There’s even a group called “birth strikers,” women who refuse to have children due to the severity of the ecological crisis. (Or at least, that’s what they tell their disappointed Jewish mothers.)

Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them.” —TRAVIS RIEDER, BIOETHICS PROFESSOR AT JOHNS HOPKINS

While I was busy not learning about science, a movement to stop the perpetuation of the human species was blossoming. Zero population growth, or ZPG, is a movement that believes that a constantly increasing population is actually responsible for many of our problems: pollution, violence, loss of values and individual privacy. Founded in 1968 by sociologist Kingsley Davis, ZPG gained momentum in the eighties. Perhaps it was even taught in private schools, but I had certainly never heard of it.