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“Even as a child, In-hye had possessed the innate strength of a character necessary to make one's own way in life. As a daughter, as an older sister, as a wife and as a mother, as the owner of a sho...”
“In a world full of polished and perfected final drafts, she was the raw and honest scribbled story.”
“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
“The only place men want depth in their women is in their dcolletage”
“Ma'am is yet another horrible-sounding word in the lexicon of words that women are stuck with to describe various aspects of their body/life/mental state/hair. Vagina. Moist. Fallopian tubes. Yeast...”
“In the nineteen sixties and seventies, there were people in all the democratic countries who didnt have any real power, and they started going to the people who did have all the power and saying, A...”
“Unfortunately, what anti-human trafficking NGOs [non-governmental organizations] really do is instead quite damaging: they normalize existent labor opportunities for women, no matter how low the pa...”
“There is no such thing as being just a girl. You are a goddess, an extension of beauty and intellect itself. Within you funnels the true power of all, and under those pretty little hairs is a mind ...”
“Stop the idea that a womans beauty is for a mans gaze, that you have the right to touch her. This idea that she must smile and accept unwanted approaches even when she is clearly uncomfortable. Jus...”
“We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are liars and the truth is not in them.Shrill vituperative no concern for the future of society maunder...”
“Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)”
“The woman glares at him and, after taking a breath, forges on. "One other issue I'd like to raise is how you have authors here separated by sex.""Yes, that's right. The person who was in charge bef...”
“Scriassine studied me in turn. "You're not so dumb, you know. Generally I dislike intelligent women, maybe because they're not intelligent enough. They always want to prove to themselves, and to ev...”
“In fact, in recent years I have become more and more didactic about pubic hair - to the point where I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow...”
“Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.”
“all of the oceans& galaxiesdid notconspire together tocreate mejust so i couldreproduce for you.-Startling Fact #1”
“if he wants to be a whore then let him. if he chooses to degrade and demean himself, just walk away. you cant make a man respect you, the relationship or himself.”
“The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.”
“The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it ma...”
“We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.”
