“Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the ...” — Mona Eltahawy Quote

“Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.”

“When the only two sides fighting are conservative - even if one of them is just conservative in appearance - then everyone loses. And women don't just lose; they're also used as cheap ammunition.”

“I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.”

“It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.”

“I boxed until I got interested in other things. My first car. Girls.”

“You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.”