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“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.”
“Rachel, I snap, I dont care if Janelle wants to work at Hooters. I dont care if you and the rest of the world want to go spend your money on dried-out chicken and ketchup-based sauces. And least of...”
“When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.”
“Reason, you'll always be half-blind.”
“Men who shared the load at home seemed just as pressed for time as their wives, and torn between the demands of career and small children...But the majority of men did not share the load at home. S...”
“They shared the chores of living as some couples do --she did most of the work and he appreciated it.”
“When our mother is seen only as the one-dimensional Mary of modern times, instead of the great dual force of life and death, She is relegated to the same second-class status of most women in the wo...”
“It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain su...”
“Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.”
“Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.”
“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent”
“Moving from phonetics to etymology, vagina originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Aint got no vagina.”
“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”
“There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.”
“something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...”
“you will rise.and are you less of a woman for this? nowhat is woman?woman is thisenduring.listen girl, you will survive thisyou will.but what fool said you had to do it silently?here is a tipscream”
“Women are raising children, picking up socks, and making sure you feel like a man by supporting you when you need it and looking sexy (but not trying too hard, because that would be pathetic). We'r...”
“This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving a face and name to associa...”
“Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun.""I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you ...”