"We can’t let the perception that talking about money is taboo stop us from taking power into our own hands". - Sallie Krawcheck (CEO of Ellevest)
“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there” - Kurt Cobain
“When we invest in women, we invest in the people who invest in everyone else. If a woman can’t get to work safely or move through her city efficiently, we aren't just failing her—we are holding back the entire economy." - Melinda French Gates
"As concerned her own individual existence, she had long ago decided in the negative, and dismissed the point as settled." - Narrator, 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies?... Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy” - Margaret Atwood, ‘The Robber Bride’.
At a time when the world seems to be erupting in flames, with countries waging wars against each other, the Indian Government appears to have declared its own war, this time against one of the country's most oppressed and stigmatised communities: transgender people.
The process of entering a treaty while excluding its essential duties brings about results equivalent to signing a contract which establishes equal treatment between parties but maintains certain exceptions that sustain existing power imbalances.
Robert Browning’s Porphyria’s Lover (1836) remains deeply unsettling not simply because it depicts murder, but because it does so with such composure. Written as a dramatic monologue, the poem depicts its speaker's complete narrative control, allowing him to confess his thoughts, rationalisations, and eventual crime without any ‘feminine’ interruption.
The modern global economy is sustained by a phantom limb—a massive, throbbing infrastructure of labour that is simultaneously indispensable and ignored. In nations like India, approximately 85% of the workforce is employed in the informal sector, contributing over 50% of the national GDP.
Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ has long occupied a place in American literary culture, frequently remembered as a sensational tale of supernatural revenge. Its most enduring images—a girl drenched in blood, a town consumed by fire—have become cultural shorthand for adolescent horror.
Set in the summer heat of a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta, Tennessee Williams’s ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ dismantles the myth of Southern gentility to expose the power structures beneath it.
Decades after its premiere, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ continues to unsettle, its humid New Orleans setting and wounded characters lodged deep in the cultural imagination. The play is often reduced to a familiar binary: illusion versus reality, Blanche DuBois’s fragile fantasies crushed beneath Stanley Kowalski’s brute force. Yet this framing risks aestheticising Blanche’s destruction while obscuring its cause.
‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen is exemplary of a woman’s stature in the Victorian Era. Nora Helmer, a woman confined to walls—two doors, one to her husband Torvald Helmer’s study, and the other to the unbeknownst outside.
"I'm not romantic you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home." - Charlotte Lucas, 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down” - Offred
“I want to do something splendid… something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead.” - Jo March
“For most of history, anonymous was a woman.” - Virginia Woolf
“When a woman is ravished what is inflicted is not merely physical injury, but ‘the deep sense of some deathless shame.” - Justice Krishna Iyer