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“Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be.”

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“It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.”

Happiness

Author:Michael Cunningham

“Now knowledge became the high road to control, and for women the pen had one major advantage over the sword; it fitted neatly into a female fist of any size, age, creed or country in the word.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“While there was work to be done, women did it, and behind the vivid foreground activities of popes and kings, wars and discoveries, tyranny and defeat, working women wove the real fabric of the kind of history that has yet to receive its due.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

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“The feminist rejection of the low view of women that Christianity had imposed upon so many nations had an important consequence for another of the key issues of the women's rights campaign: the demands for education. The ignorance of women had been bound in with Christian dogma - Eve's sin consisted of reaching out for the tree of knowledge, so her punishment was to be forever deprived of it. Unchallenged for centuries, this attitude produced generations of women doomed to be brought up in mental darkness and then condemned as stupid: "We are educated to the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason," complained Lady Mary Wortley Montagu bitterly in the eighteenth century.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“The rights that women had won through the long century and more of struggle were essentially rights of men. Women had had no option but to batter their way into the age-old fortress of male privilege, and storm the citadel where masculine supremacy still held out.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Women have had to learn, often painfully and always with reluctance, that their freedom will not simply come of its own accord.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“The cultivation world did not care about wedding attendants, and would not have the female cultivator wear a veil. Supposedly, a thousand years ago, a male cultivator from the mortal world wanted the female cultivator he was marrying to wear a veil. The female cultivator then beat him up. After the beating, the female cultivator said, what bad habit was this? Other men could not look at a woman’s face at the wedding banquet but a man’s face could be seen by other women? Their path union ceremony was cancelled because of this. The male cultivator’s tragic and true experience helped speed up the equality between genders in the cultivation world. At least, not many male cultivators dared to have female cultivators do things that they themselves were not willing to do.”

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Book:Ascending, Do Not Disturb

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“I don't have the privilege of independently thinking about gender and race.”

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Book:I'm a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World

Source: I'm a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World

“If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.”

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Book:Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

“This pelvic preoccupation with women's rampant innards had more of a comic effect, however. Since women were seen as reproductive beings, any and every disorder they experienced was treated by treatment of the reproductive organs.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

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