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“Moralism is the cunt’s effort to find some basis for self-respect, a pitiful gesture toward being human at which men laugh and for which women pity other women.” Right Wing Women This material may be protected by copyright.”

Book:Right-Wing Women

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Right-Wing Women

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Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin was an American writer and activist known for her work in feminist theory and activism. She focused on issues of pornography, violence against women, and the intersection of gender and politics. Her influential works include 'Intercourse' and 'Pornography: Men Possessing Women'. more

“You know what my father told me when I was little, one day, when he found me crying? He told me that God gave people a fixed number of tears and are of two kinds: tears of sadness and tears of happiness. And that I should not waste my tears elsewhere, but keep them for the moments of happiness. Would be a shame to not have tears to cry then ...”

Happiness Sadness

Book:Fluturi

Source: Fluturi

“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors- I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? Why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?”

Feminism Woman

Author:Emily Brontë

“That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all different directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July Rocket.”

Feminism Classics

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Now that more women are declaring our full humanity - now that we are more likely to be valued for our heads and hearts, not just the bodies that house them - we also wonder: Could we have helped Marilyn survive?”

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