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“For all he had acknowledged her as a being capable of desire, he hadn't seen her reality; that she was a woman, trapped within the narrow confines of a woman's life, and everything that could be wanted was all equally impossible”

Book:She Who Became the Sun

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“And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences like rape, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, honour killing, female infanticide, banishment to menstrual huts, surrogacy tourism or death by stoning for the act of adultery. Clue: it’s not possession of a female gender identity.”

Feminism Gender Critical

Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

“White women wanted parity with white men at any cost, including by avidly taking on the domination of Black and Brown people. As white feminists have progressed within their societies, and began to occupy increasingly important positions, they're constructing a feminism that uses the lives of Black and Brown people as arenas in which they can prove their credentials to white men.”

Feminism White Feminism

Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

“The questions now really are: why is pornography credible in our society? how can anyone believe it? And then: how subhuman would women have to be for the pornography to be true? To the men who use the pornography, how subhuman are women?”

Feminism

Book:Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women

Source: Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women

“Strong is strong and weak is weak, and it doesn’t matter if you wear breeches or skirts if you’re the latter. Life will hammer you flat.”

Feminism Equality

Book:The Devil and the Dark Water

Source: The Devil and the Dark Water

“White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world, held back from success by very basic issues that have very basic solutions.”

Feminism White Feminism

Book:Against White Feminism

Source: Against White Feminism

“Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.”

Life Inspirational Happiness Wasting Time

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“The appeals judge said that pornography did all the harm we claimed--it promoted insult and injury, rape and assault, even caused women to have lower wages--and that these effects proved its power as speech; therefore, it had to be protected.”

Feminism

Book:Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women

Source: Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women

“I remember feeling very angry at Betty Friedan." AB: What? Why? "Well... she hated housework and wanted women to be independent, but then she's hire other women to do her housework.”

Humor Feminism Gender Roles Gender Empowerment

Book:Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Source: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“Daphne tried to convey to him that the likelihood of degrees for women at Oxford was a matter for satisfaction, perhaps, but hardly for excitement or ratification. Women's accomplishments in the University had long been equal, if not superior, to men's; degrees were not a privilege, they were simply what women deserved - their due, their right. She became very animated as she argued on this topic.”

Women Feminism World War One The Dark Tide Vera Brittain Women S Education Women S Freedom

Book:The Dark Tide

Source: The Dark Tide

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