The Girls are quippy as well as lippy. They are the Fun-Guard of feminism. —Ginny Dougary, The Times (London)
Their work is taught in art history classes, they are written about in doctoral dissertations and for years they've been regulars on the college circuit. But that doesn't mean they've removed their masks or lost their bite. —Phoebe Hoban , The New York Times
Clearly, these Girls aren't the wait-by-the-phone type. —Margot Ebling, The Village Voice
The Guerrilla Girls took feminist theory, gave it a populist twist and some Madison Avenue pizazz and set it loose in the streets. —Roberta Smith, The New York Times
...waging what they call cultural warfare...where the main ammunition is wit. —CNN
The posters were rude; they named names and they printed statistics. They embarassed people. In other words, they worked. —Susan Tallman, Arts Magazine
The work of the Guerrilla Girls represents a most powerful political union between theory and practice. They set an example for feminists everywhere. —bell hooks
Sometimes, battling sexism in the normal way just won’t do. Sometimes, you must don a gorilla mask, adopt the name of a dead female artist and send estrogen pills to the White House. —Heather Svokos, Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader
They make culture hacking look good. Really good. —Wired
Their weapons of terror....are irony and rhetoric rather than rubber bullets and gelignite. —Guy Trebay,The Village Voice
Making those in power accountable, raising public awareness and inspiring other groups to do the same, the Guerrilla Girls are not only making waves in the art world, they're making the F-word fashionable again. —Paula Shutkever, Everywomen Magazine
...the feminist pranksters.... —Newsweek
...those rabid feminists.... —The New York Post
The Guerrilla Girls present our facts of life...making the art world take notice and face up to the enormous disparity between the sexes. —Maya Lin
Their very anonymity makes clear that they are fighting for women as a caste, but their message celebrates each woman's uniqueness. By insisting on a world as if women mattered, and also the joy of getting there, the Guerrilla Girls pass the ultimate test: they make us both laugh and fight; both happy and strong. —Gloria Steinem
All of us dads who have daughters ought to want them to become Guerrilla Girls when they grow up and never, never tell us of it. —Russell Banks, Novelist
The Guerrilla Girls are prime consciousness-raisers and they do it in a way that's effective, with wit in all senses of the word. —Kirk Varnedoe, Museum of Modern Art
Praise for Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes
In their latest literary action, Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers, the girls have turned their hairy heads towards a galaxy of stereotypes leveraged at women throughout history, and their gaze is positively withering... But don't go adding Bitches to your list of 'boring-yet-relevant-new-books-I-should-read'...Every entry is saturated with funny, quirky, cultural satire... —Bust Magazine
Although it tackles a serious subject, the book is delightfully campy and breezy, filled with short sidebards, quirky photos and sarcastic diatribes that go for the jugular.—Detroit Metrotimes
Praise for The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
A leveling indictment of bigotry in the art world, the work of the Guerrilla Girls elevates cage-bar rattling to a fine art. —Mark Dery, The New York Times Book Review
...the book is much more than a girlie slap in the face of art world politics; it's more like a sock to the gut. —Raven Moon, moxie
Praise for The Guerrilla Girls' exhibition at the Venice Biennale
Kick-ass. —Walter Robinson, Artnet Magazine
The surrounding walls of the entrance gallery sport colorful vinyl banners by the Guerrilla Girls, the anonymous artists collective that uses billboard and other advertising techniques to chronicle sexism in the worlds of art and popular culture. Here, with the raucous help of busty images of Pamela Anderson and Halle Berry they take on everything from the museums of Venice, with their dearth of art by women, to Hollywood, which the Girls say has given 92.8% of its Academy Awards for writing to men. . . . That Corral and Martínez, the first women to organize the Biennale, have chosen art by women to introduce their shows of personal and public politics is telling.—Christopher Knight,The Los Angeles Times
Praise for The Guerrilla Girls' performances/lectures
A pair of Guerrilla Girls, emissaries from a group of New York-based, feminist art activists, packed Loyola University's Roussel Hall lask week with 600 enthusiastic fans. The two women, wearing gorilla masks, showed slides, performed satirical skits and regaled the crowd with talks of trench warfare fought against the mostly male art establishment. The show was sophisticated, sometimes self-depracating and certainly inspirational to the eager audience. —Doug MacCash, Art Critic, Times-Picayune
Dear Guerrilla Girls: I recently caught a Guerrilla Girls presentation that stopped in Vancouver and wanted to express how amazing an experience it was. Where else can one educate themselves on some serious subjects, share disgust with a whole audience, and find time to laugh one's ass off in one night? I also wanted to express my appreciation- as a human, an artist, and a person of colour, for what the GGs are working towards. —Audience member in Vancouver
This was the most successful and enriching program/event/speaker I have heard in my four years here. —Student evaluation form, College of Creative Studies, Detroit
When the Girls leave town, the women left behind have been empowered to speak out, and there is no one to blame except a bunch of monkeys from New York. —from But is it Art? “Guerrilla Girl Power: Why the Art World Needs a Conscience” by Elizabeth Hess