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“It will take you long, lonely years, but one day you will grow tired. Tired of boys, tired of contempt, and then where will you be? All these girls around you with their stories and their lives, th...”
“How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?”
“If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone who doesn't believe in equality for women.”
“Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives”
“The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother a...”
“We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encouraged to supress the broad aspects of their humanity that we decry as "feminine", we're all screwed...”
“History is full of lady engineers and spies and scientists. But history is also written by the victorious, and it may not surprise you that thus far the overwhelming winners have been straight whit...”
“I spent a great deal of my ilfe trying to be quiet and nice and not piss anyone off. I was misereable. It served no purpose. And they still came for me. It made me even easier to dismiss, to overlo...”
“Young white men in the eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-old range are often coming to grips with the fact that life isn't as easy as they were promised. I've been there myself. When you realize that li...”
“Complacent eligible voters who abstained from voting because I dont like either candidate provided a deadly assist. You are the collective of assassins responsible for slaughtering the America of h...”
“America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat. Sarah Mullen”
“She felt the phrase demand her rights had lain inside her forever, waiting.”
“But she didnt want to rest! Her blood ran through her more slowly, its pace domesticated, like a beast that had trained its steps to fit in its cage.”
“The idea that "femininity is artificial" is also blatantly misogynistic. Just as woman is man's "other", so too is femininity masculinity's "other". Under such circumstances, negative connotations ...”
“In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting”
“I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.”
“Men are minded to conjure the most extraordinary tales about women who would question their place in the world.”
“I crunch the assigned reading in my shaking hand, an article titled Dan Quayle was right. It argued that children raised by single moms were destined for failure. Joined by my fellow students, we a...”
“Just after midnight, I text my parents who live in Florida: Please tell me you didnt help elect him.No reply.The next morning, New York City wakes up with a wet, gray yawn. The air is thick with mi...”
“I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.”
