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“Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men,...”
“It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the possession of herself, the ownership and effective control of her own body, her seperateness and disti...”
“Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.”
“Sex-positive feminism embraces the entire range of human sexuality and is based on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom. - Madison Young”
“I go back for seconds and thirds and fourths and fifths, when its good. Just not if it means some guy gets to put a leash on me.”
“When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.”
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it wo...”
“Women that speak against Islam are being labelled as islamophobic, as though our right to free speech is disregarded, when it comes down to an oppressive regime, which does not even recognise women...”
“And she wanted to be free. It wasn't Mr. Brumley she wanted; he was but a means if indeed he was a means to an end. The person she wanted, the person she had always wanted was herself. Could Mr....”
“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,the lost brother, the twin ---for him did we leave our mothers,deny our sisters, over and over?did we invent him, conjure himover the charring log,nights...”
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, a...”
“I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me.”
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
“So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.”
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
