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“I confess that I am now suspicious of nearly every attempt to code anger as unhealthy, no matter how well meaning or persuasive the source. I believe Stanton was correct: what is bad for women, when it comes to anger, are the messages that cause us to bottle it up, let it fester, keep it silent, feel shame, and isolation for ever having felt it or re-channel it in inappropriate directions. What is good for us is opening our mouths and letting it out, permitting ourselves to feel it and say it and think it and act on it and integrate it into our lives, just as we integrate joy and sadness and worry and optimism.”
― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“You owe no man anything, Mariko."
"Especially not a man such as he." Mariko scowled. "Regardless, I will never be one of those ladies at court who worships a man."
"No matter the man?" Ōkami joked. "Even if he worshipped you?"
"No," Mariko said. "Not even for you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Smoke in the Sun

“Here’s the validation that I hope it can offer: that those who are furious right now are not alone, are not crazy, are not unattractive.”
― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“In the United States, we have never been taught how noncompliant, insistent, furious women have shaped our history and our present, our activism and our art. We should be.”
― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger