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“It says a lot about Sandbergs brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls”
“Ive always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: its not as if were packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the freezer, after all, or pasting them in scrapbooks. But packed-away v...”
“Yes. Shes correct. Were not friends. We are lufenes actually. But shes had an overdose of magic, which has seemingly rendered her empathetically impotent.”
“Be as pissed off as you want to be. Dont hold back because you think its unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldnt be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in ...”
“My least favorite form of street harassment is when a guy asks why Im not smiling. Its related to that: Women arent allowed to be quiet or stoic or shyor, hell, just in a bad moodwithout being crit...”
“When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?”
“Do you think it is fair that guy will make more money doing the same job as you? Does it piss you off and scare you when you find out about your friends getting raped? Do you ever feel like shit ab...”
“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate mur”
“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”
“I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.”
“Women have participated in almost every fight for freedom. They were there when civilians were targeted they were there when the bombs were planted. To argue they didn't have enough power to speak ...”
“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
“I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I dont live in decent society.”
“To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.”
“Maybe your past isn't perfect. Maybe it was brutal. Maybe you were brutal. Maybe you've got more scars than you thought one skin could hold. You can't linger on those thoughts. You will drown in th...”
“It's all part of my spirituality,as the wind softly kisses my face, and the world travels beneath me.”
“Color is powerful. It is almost physiologically impossible to be in a bad mood when you're wearing bright red pants.”
“It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.”
“Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.”
“..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as...”
