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“If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your rasscloth mouth”
“It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.”
“I can line up these moments of violence, precariously as dominoes. Sometimes I worry they will all fall; knocking each other down, knocking me down. Sometimes they do. Violence left me hollow. It l...”
“But by far the worst thing we do to malesby making them feel they have to be hardis that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”
“Turning the safety argument on its head, we now propose that what women need in order to maximize their access to public space as citizens is not greater surveillance or protectionism (however well...”
“Studies introduced ideas such as the theory that parents pushing their children to play with gendered toys meant children learned to act a certain way according to whether they were a boy or a girl...”
“The problem with movements is that, all too often, they are associated only with the most visible figures, the people with the biggest platforms and the loudest, most provocative voices. But femini...”
“I guess what Im saying is, lets keep lifting each other up. Its not lost on me that two of the biggest opportunities Ive had to break into the next level were given to me by successful women in pos...”
“POCKET-SIZED FEMINISMThe only other girl at the party is ranting about feminism. The audience:a sea of rape jokes and snapbacksand styrofoam cups and me. They gawkat her mouth like it is a drain cl...”
“My vagina was green water, soft pink fields, cow mooing sun resting sweet boyfriend touching lightly with soft piece of blond straw.There is something between my legs. I do not know what it is. I d...”
“something about the phrase - something abouthow i have to be unlike the womeni call sisters in order to be wantedmakes me want to spit your tongue out”
“I will have my serpents tongue - my womans voice, my sexual voice, my poets voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”
“When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult to join? If you do well in a situation, do you expect to be called a credit to your race? Or to be...”
“Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.”
“I am all things, I am not your words. I am defined by me.”
“Fighting for equality is often misunderstood as simply being offered the same terms as men on paper. In may ways we already have that. What we dont have is emancipation: the opportunity to be free ...”
“Women, the softer sex, are expected to bare this emotional performance yet accept the fact it is undervalued, both classified as an intrinsic skill that accompanies living whilst female, and the be...”
“Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.”
“I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attain.”
“Pregnancy = "the slow, difficult, and delightful apprenticeship in attentiveness, gentleness, forgetting oneself. The ability to succeed in this path without masochism and without annihilating one'...”
