It's a Jungle Out There Quotes

“Feminists for Life prefer to lay claim to feminism in the same way that all conservatives lay claim to progressive movements they want to co-opt, which is to find some dead progressive leaders and claim to be speaking for them. One favorite conservative line is to claim that for some reason Martin Luther King Jr. would oppose affirmative action. Their main evidence for this is that he, being dead, can't talk back, now can he?”
― Amanda Marcotte, It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments

“However, despite possessing the quality of Niceness that other folks consider basic decency, the Nice Guy is not getting the dates or sex he thinks he is entitled to. That he feels entitled to these things is not considered evidence that he's not really that Nice.”
― Amanda Marcotte, It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments

“In the women's magazine world, there's a carefully cultivated sense that everyone else knows what to do except you, and you need the magazine to find out the big secrets that everyone is keeping from you. In other words, part of being the Perfect Woman is feeling insecure and suspecting everyone is more Perfect than you.”
― Amanda Marcotte, It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments