Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
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Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to.
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Bumble is the perfect fit for New Zealand, a country that has always been a world leader when putting women first.
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Safety is something you should never have to pay for. If you're abusive or, say, not who you say you are on Bumble, you're gone. We have a zero tolerance policy.
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I'm so tired of this notion that women only need to support women. Why can't we all support each other?
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I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.
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Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.
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In real life, we are all on our devices. We might go to a place where we fit the crowd and could meet someone. But, because we are all on our phones, you might not notice the cute boy behind you in line for coffee, and he's not going to notice the gorgeous girl sitting outside. So, we might as well notice them on our phones, on Tinder.
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When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
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Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.
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I always tell young women that they have a right to own their opinion, to speak up, and to make the first move.
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If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone. And generally, people don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone because it's outside of the status quo.
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The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
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In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online.
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Harass someone on Bumble, and you're banned for life. Harsh? Maybe. But I feel strongly that we won't end misogyny until we start holding each other to higher standards, and that starts with setting clear boundaries and enforcing them.
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My biggest struggle being a woman in the workforce has not only been with my mother, my grandmother, and a lot of my girlfriends. When I'm working late hours, I'm almost punished for it by them. It's almost absurd that I would prioritize work over catching up with my girlfriends. If I were a man, that would just come second nature.
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From its conception, I wanted Bumble's culture to match its values. If women were taking charge on our app, then they'd be running the show behind the scenes, too.
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I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.
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I'm kind of in my own world.
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I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.