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“Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.”

Book:From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

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Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell, born on September 29, 1939, is a renowned film critic. She is known for her in-depth film analysis and unique perspective, making significant contributions to film history and theory. more

“It's just so sad what we're willing to do for the Joey Spinellis of the world, you know? The mutilating, the tweezing, the enhancing, the plumping, the pinching, the waxing, the starving, the sweating, the bleaching. And for what? So you can wake up next to THAT in thirty years? What are we thinking??”

Funny Women True

Book:The Vinyl Princess

Source: The Vinyl Princess

“By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people. I didn’t want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.”

Children Women Feminism Heroes Heroism Elderly Heroics

Book:Tehanu

Source: Tehanu

“Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.”

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Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

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