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“Absolutely, women just love cleaning because it's in our 'female DNA'—right next to the 'loves pink' gene.”

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“If you are a woman—the flames are seen as too close. The flames of Virginia Woolf.”

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“Society believes that every man comes out of the womb with a PhD in 'Fixing Stuff 101”

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“She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and the worst (if it had not been for Mr. Bankes) were between men and women. Inevitably those were extremely insincere”

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“She is bleeding Ophelia, not a tortured Hamlet.”

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“Las cosas más tristes son las que deberían ser felices y no lo son.”

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“If Molly Brown was a real woman writer, she would probably be dismissed as mad and unnecessarily pathologized. We glorify our male literary hysterics who often channel women and condemn our female literary hysterics. They can play women, fetishize her excesses. Make fun of her frivolity. They don't have to be women. A colonizing or appropriating of the feminine.”

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Book:Heroines

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“My femme fatales, my deadly women, so often left to die.”

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“It's difficult not to read Vivien(ne) as this pathetic spectacle of illness and dependence. The ultimate grotesque of femininity, like Freud's hysteric/housewife (both Dora and her mother). But channeling her, imagining an interior life, I can sense her early inner spirit and see it squelched and doomed into sickness and submission. Under different circumstances and with more strength and less of a mother who crafted her as an invalid from childhood., she could have been an author. Maybe.”

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Book:Heroines

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“In This Sex which is Not One Luce Irigaray asks: "Does Woman have an unconscious or is the unconscious?" She who represents a primitive myth, something of the unrepressed past. Blank, you can project anything onto her.”

Book:Heroines

Source: Heroines

“If we consider the call for "equal opportunity" in this light, it has a hollow ring about it.' Opportunity' implies 'choice,' yet there has never been any real choice for women. Their position as low-paid, part-time, intermittent, secondary wage earners has determined their role in the home since the beginning of he industrial revolution.”

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