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“No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.”

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“What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick, to the proletariat; in short, to everything that isn’t supposed to “talk,” and in general to whatever the knowledge-powers of government and management don’t want to hear, which is thus relegated to exclusion from all recognized activity, relegated to the role of a witness.”

Politics Feminism Gender Biopolitics

Author:Tiqqun

“It is through the collaboration of all these factors, of course, that patriarchy is enforced: an elegant machinery whose pistons fire silently inside their own minds, and whose gleaming gears we mistake for our own jewelry.”

Feminism Male Gaze

Book:Girlhood

Source: Girlhood

“DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad. BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male chauvinist bias is that women are inferior. The unbiased view is that the truth lies somewhere in between. (an early comment on backlash, from "Glossary for the Eighties")”

Politics Feminism

Author:Ellen Willis

“Two of them have asked in the most circumspect and quiet ways possible if there was a chance that you prefer women.” I let out a sound that wasn’t quite a laugh. “Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?”

Feminism Eadlyn Schreave

Book:The Heir

Source: The Heir

“Lord, make me now As happy as the field. With flowers enriched...”

Happiness Contentment Flowers

Author:Eileen Soper

“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“I don't want equal rights with the white man; if I did, I'd be a thief and a murderer.”

Feminism Racism Militarism Intersectionality

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.”

Race Feminism Gender Misogyny

Author:Scott Lynch

“Flowers of the garden are Flashy, fragrant, and fair But Yearn ye not, my bairn They live at the mercy of man”

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Book:Saint Richard Parker

Source: Saint Richard Parker

“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.”

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Book:Lily of the Nile

Source: Lily of the Nile