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“There's not a stratum of the world that doesn't need girls. Maybe we're devalued precisely because we're so valuable. The world is too afraid of not bein able to obtain and control us to respect our true worth.”

Book:Iron Widow

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Iron Widow

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“Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the rest of the world.” Have you no kind of life where [asexual reproduction] is possible?” asked Zava. “Why, yes-some low forms, of course.” “How low-or how high, rather?”

Feminism Reproduction

Book:Herland

Source: Herland

“I don’t belong to anyone! I’m not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I’m a woman.”

Feminism Woman Belonging

Book:Ammonite

Source: Ammonite

“the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power”

Feminism

Book:The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

“Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210”

Inspirational Feminism Philosophy Of Life

Book:Sita: Warrior of Mithila

Source: Sita: Warrior of Mithila

“To truly be antiracist is to be feminist. To truly be feminist is to be antiracist.”

Feminism Antiracism

Book:How to Be an Antiracist

Source: How to Be an Antiracist

“The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.”

Feminism Memoir Transgender Wwii Hungary

Book:In the Darkroom

Source: In the Darkroom

“Anger left to run free is like wildfire, indiscriminate in its destruction. But if you learn to tame it, to position it, to take aim with it? Then it becomes a candle. And what is the candle but one of man’s greatest assets? It warms. It nourishes. It shines a light in the darkest of places, and it illuminates the path forward.”

Inspirational Feminism Anger

Book:The Society For Soulless Girls

Source: The Society For Soulless Girls

“I have trouble respecting a woman who gives away for free what she could sell for good money. Whores are the only women who know their own worth. I mean that.”

Feminism

Book:The Red

Source: The Red

“A man who decides to call himself a woman is not giving up his privilege. He is simply using it in a more insidious way.”

Feminism

Book:The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

Source: The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

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