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“If they were scientists, they were told to be mothers. If they wanted to be mothers, they were told they’d better fit the mold entirely. If they wanted to invent something, they were told to be practical.”

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“Somehow, as we made our entrance into the realm of young womanhood, we began to lose power. Fascinating research on girlhood is happening these days. It confirms that young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.”

Power Feminism Feminist Conformity Women Empowerment Femininity Women S Strength Girlhood Feminine Power Feminist Literature

Book:Communion: The Female Search for Love

Source: Communion: The Female Search for Love

“Did Alice herself have a job? She gave the appearance of being a lady of leisure. A pop-up Court of Women assembled themselves in the back seat of the Defender and gave a collective sigh.”

Feminism Satire Dry Humor

Book:Death at the Sign of the Rook

Source: Death at the Sign of the Rook

“By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into an uncanny stranger on display- the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions.”

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Book:The Laugh of the Medusa

Source: The Laugh of the Medusa

“The belief that women are more powerful when they band together in what has been called sisterhood is disempowering. That men believe they can and should do something by their own ingenuity and skills on their own is an important advantage. Not just feminists believe in the notion of feminine solidarity — a sort of lifetime sorority — but feminists have promoted it relentlessly. It is a disabling fallacy.”

Feminism Sisterhood Disempowerment

Author:Nicolas S. Martin

“I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”

Feminism

Book:My Body

Source: My Body

“A good man is a good man, but a good woman is great.”

Feminism Female Her She Broms The Poet

Book:FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized

Source: FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized

“What gender ideology does is position the disassociation from sex reality as a right.”

Feminism

Book:Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

Source: Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

“[Gender ideology] seeks protection for those who claim to be outside the borders of human sexual dimorphism as it decimates the rights of women, parents, and homosexuals and violates the bodies and instincts of children.”

Feminism

Book:Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

Source: Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

“[Gender ideology] industry has built a legal human rights apparatus to change our species' borders [...] it is tyranny dressed up in the clothes of what has become the carcass of the progressive left, and it seeks absolute power and control over humanity and nature.”

Feminism

Book:Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

Source: Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

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