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“Do everything you can to get men to look at you, and when they do, pretend they don't exist. Because only a slut looks back. Is that perfectly clear? Early lesson on the female condition.”

Women Feminism Girls Females Sluts

Book:A Feather on the Breath of God

Source: A Feather on the Breath of God

“Like many women, she would always find it easier to feel for a male (except, of course, her husband, against whom she bore innumerable, lifelong, deadly grudges) than for any female.”

Men Women Misogyny Grudges Gender Relations

Book:The Vulnerables

Source: The Vulnerables

“And I can't say how many stories I now see that deal seriously with the question of how we'd all be better off in a world without men.”

Men Stories Women Prejudice Gender Relationships

Book:The Vulnerables

Source: The Vulnerables

“Rose, who teaches college, said, I had a student who wrote in a paper that she'd have a different attitude toward mortality if she'd been born male, because then, quote, I would've always gotten what I wanted in life. When I pointed out that this wasn't true, that it was not just hyperbolic but completely false, she doubled down. But men have all the power, she kept saying.”

Men Women Power Gender Relations

Book:The Vulnerables

Source: The Vulnerables

“What does it mean, said Rose, our stubborn Rose, to say that the world would be better off without men? Women are less violent, but what about all the other wicked traits, like racism and greed and malignant narcissism? There'd still be plenty of that. Oh, I don't know, said Camellia. Just to have less violence--less warmongering, less bloodshed, less crime--wouldn't that be grand?”

Men War Women Violence Crime Racism Gender Narcissism Gender Relations Gender Traits

Book:The Vulnerables

Source: The Vulnerables

“A world without men would hardly be a utopia. There'd still be some kind of hierarchy, that's inevitable. There'd still be one group trying to dominate everyone else, because that's human nature. There'd still be plenty of abused children. On the other hand, I can't quite picture Orwell's "boot stamping on a human face forever" on a female foot.”

Men Women Gender Domination Hierarchy George Orwell

Book:The Vulnerables

Source: The Vulnerables

“In a sea of fragile young women she stood out as the one most likely to drown.”

Women Young Women Drowning Fragility

Book:The Vulnerables

Source: The Vulnerables

“A riddle: If it was true what she said, that she expected nothing from her husband, why was she forever seething with disappointment?”

Women Marriage Expectations Disappointment Spouses Husbands Contradictions

Book:A Feather on the Breath of God

Source: A Feather on the Breath of God

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