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“Kadınlar da konuşuyorlar hani. Bütün ezilen topluluklar gibi, kadınlar da konuşkan insanlardır, çünkü onlara başka hiçbir anlatım olanağı tanınmaz.”

Book:The Prostitution Papers: A Quartet For Female Voice

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The Prostitution Papers: A Quartet For Female Voice

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Kate Millett

Kate Millett is an American writer and feminist, born on September 14, 1934. Her works hold significant status in the field of feminist literature, with notable titles including 'Sexual Politics' and 'Scapegoat'. more

“An easy and even a pleasant task is it to reduce human problems to numerical figures in black and white on charts and graphs, an infinitely difficult one is it to suggest concrete solutions, or to extend true charity in individual lives. Yet life can only be lived in the individual; almost invariably the individual refuses to conform to the theories and the classifications of the statistician.”

Feminism Birth Control Roe V Wade Margaret Sanger Motherood In Bondage

Book:Motherhood in Bondage

Source: Motherhood in Bondage

“In health class, for reasons that made sense only to her, a teacher showed us the symbol for female – a circle with a cross underneath it – and told us that it was synonymous with abortion.”

Feminism

Book:If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Source: If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one.”

Inspirational Feminism Girlpower

Book:Girl, Goddess, Queen

Source: Girl, Goddess, Queen

“We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable. So instead of teaching Chizalum to be likeable, teach her to be honest. And kind.”

Kindness Feminism

Book:Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“He is just a boy, standing in front of a girl, asking her to do twice as much work as he ever did in order to prove that she’s worthy of becoming a scientist.”

Feminism Stem Stem Girls

Book:Love on the Brain

Source: Love on the Brain

“Everyone knows what the female complaint is: women live for love, and love is the gift that keeps on taking”

Love Feminism Feminist Theory

Book:The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Source: The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

“Male villains have motivations based on flaws in their character constantly and remain likable, but when villainesses have the same impulses, they're lambasted as the most terrible shrews and wretches who ever shew-ed or wretch-ed. Denying women characters the same base impulses as their male counterparts is misogynistic---and boring.”

Feminism Misogyny Villains

Book:Let Her Be Evil

Source: Let Her Be Evil

“I realized that most women in their teens and twenties hadn’t yet experienced one or more of the great radicalizing events of a woman’s life: marrying and discovering it isn’t yet an equal (or even nonviolent) institution; getting into the paid labor force and experiencing its limits, from the corporate “glass ceiling” to the “sticky floor” of the pink-collar ghetto; having children and finding out who takes care of them and who doesn’t; and, finally, aging, still the most impoverishing and disempowering event for women of every race and so the most radicalizing.”

Feminism Women S Rights Essays Women S Liberation Radical Feminism

Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy

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