“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.” PoliticsWomenFeminismElectionsFeministsSarah Palin Book:Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women Source: Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
“On some level, if not intellectual then animal, there has always been an understanding of the power of women's anger:that as an oppressed majority in the United States, women have long had within them the potential to rise up in fury, to take over a country in which they've never really been offered their fair or representative stake. Perhaps the reason that women's anger is so broadly denigrated--treated as so ugly, so alienating, and so irrational--is because we have known all along that with it came the explosive power to upturn the very systems that have sought to contain it. What becomes clear, when we look to the past with an eye to the future, is that the discouragement of women's anger--via silencing, erasure, and repression--stems from the correct understanding of those in power that in the fury of women lies the power to change the world.” PoliticsFeminismWomen S HistoryU S History Book:Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger