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“The woman cooked as if every ingredient were a piece of incriminating evidence she needed to render unrecognizable.”

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“This is what it means to love someone. You cook for them. You help them carry the weight of their own memories.”

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

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“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.”

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Book:Motherhood in Bondage

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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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.”

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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”

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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.”

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Book:Let Her Be Evil

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“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.”

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Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

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“I, too, identified with every underdog in the world before realizing that women are primordial underdogs. Today, many still take injustice more seriously if it affects any group except women. Women ourselves may support other causes before having the self-respect to stand up for our own.”

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Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy