“You may need to witness several false dawns fully to understand that all women are, in patriarchal terms, the losers. That is our role; it is baked into patriarchal understandings of history, progress, success, failure, creativity, genius, what really matters, what doesn’t. Insisting yours is the cohort of women who will finally smash the patriarchy, whereas the one that preceded it represents its last stand, is itself patriarchal.” WomenFeminismFeministWomanPatriarchyFeminist QuotesLosers Book:Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women Source: Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
“Misogyny is not just hatred enacted on women, but the means of defending stories about what women are in order to entrench male dominance.” FeminismFeministMisogyny Book:Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women Source: Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women