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“But I think that she was capable of anything because everything had already happened to her. She was fearless because she'd already suffered what the rest of us live in fear of.”

Book:The Bandit Queens

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“Women do not write books about men—a fact that I could not help welcoming with relief, for if I had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before I could set pen to paper.”

Feminism

Book:A Room of One’s Own

Source: A Room of One’s Own

“As children, we were taught to be afraid of tigers and lions. Nobody taught us what I know today--- the most dangerous animal in this world is a man with wounded pride.”

Feminism Toxic Masculinity Patriarchal Culture Outdated Thinking

Book:Honor

Source: Honor

“Okay, she was healthy and if a healthy woman liked to be looked at and not as a side of beef then it follows, as the night from day, that healthy men should like to look at them, else there was just no darn sense to it.”

Feminism Lust Exhibitionism

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me?”

Humor Happiness Relationships Prom

Book:Prom & Prejudice

Source: Prom & Prejudice

“Look at you, taking care of everyone but yourself, letting love make you hollow instead of full.”

Love Poetry Feminism

Book:Artemis Made Me Do It

Source: Artemis Made Me Do It

“Does the work of a girl always have to be so anonymous?”

Feminism Thought Provoking

Book:Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

Source: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

“Men often ask me, 'Why are your female characters so paranoid?' It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.”

Feminism

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Rose had enough of standing back and doing nothing. Of being told to sit still and behave and go to work and wear this and say that, of being told what to do by men, and boys, and her mother, and teachers, and bosses, and boyfriends, by the Doctor and the Nestene and everyone in between. Above her, the world was ending. In front of her, the Doctor was dying. At her feet, Mickey was blubbing. Well, to hell with that.”

Feminism Doctor Who

Book:Doctor Who: Rose

Source: Doctor Who: Rose

“Everyone has the right to own a doll that looks like them.”

Feminism Body Image

Book:Delicacy

Source: Delicacy

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