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“Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day ...”
“I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if...”
“You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit. - Susan Brownmiller”
“Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so mu...”
“It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to th...”
“There's nothing a man can do, that i can't do better and in heels”
“This is the underside of my world.Of course you dont want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want to make sure youre intelligent. You dont want me to commit suicide; you only want me to be gratef...”
“Society will not crumble if men take a turn at the dishes.”
“Because the purpose of feminism isnt to make a particular type of woman. The idea that there are inherently wrong and inherently right types of women is whats screwed feminism for so longthis belie...”
“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst-burst with forms much more b...”
“blessed beshewho isbothfuriousand magnificent”
“If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and negl...”
“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”
“No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.”
“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libr?' Are you free, my dau...”
“It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.”
“Human rights are womens rights, and womens rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely and the right to be heard.”
“The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.”
“Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive”
“Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if ...”
