“The first responsibility of a "liberated" woman is to lead the fullest, freest, and most imaginative life she can. The second responsibility is her solidarity with other women. She may life and work and make love with men. But she has no right to represent her situation as simpler, or less suspect, or less full of compromises than it really is. her good relations with men must not be bought at the price of betraying her sisters.”
“I am tired that today’s world system punishes women: worships them in words, hates them in deeds, and does not protect them. I am tired that the consequences of “masculine games” — like war — are always paid by women, children, and the weaker ones. I am tired that the economy and society exploit women economically, emotionally, and physically — as workers, as mothers, as women, as the glue that holds families together.”
“[Emma, a fanfiction writer] says she feels like she has more in common, now, with that twelve-year-old girl [that she was] than with the professor she has seemed to become. "It is just sheerly for fun," Emma says of fandom. "It is grace freely given. It is joy shared without consideration of compensation or payback." To her, it's the opposite of work; it's play. [...] Fandom is about reclaiming that play space for "productive selfishness," she says, and "the assignment of your time according to whatever the fuck you feel like, instead of what would be most efficient, or most advantageous to others. It's as important to me as eating healthy or getting exercise.”
Source: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It
“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.”
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Вводячи жінку в життя, природа не питала: "Чи се мужчина, чи жінка, щоби мені наділити їх відповідними здібностями?" Ні — природа казала лише: "Ось ти, і жий!”
“Однак жінка — людина, так само як і мужчина, і вимоги природи в неї такі самі, як її в нього, то її через те треба в таких самих умовах, як і його, виховувати до боротьби за існування, а озброївшися наукою, знанням законів, знанням різних галузей праці, зможе й сама боротись за життєві засоби.”
“Rape was where my rebellion started. His sense that—small as I was, an infant—I needed to be controlled was my hint that I had power that had to be curtailed. That I was alive enough to be annihilated. That my survival was a threat that needed to be contained. Rape and sexual abuse made me nothing, and in doing so made me something.”
Source: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“Why, seeing the misery that a supposedly good marriage could make of a woman's life, should a strong-willed young female relinquish her newly gained independence?”
Source: In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace
“Women don't understand self-defense the way men do—perhaps because sexual abuse destroys the self. We don't feel we have a right to kill just because we are being beaten, raped, tortured, and terrorized. We are hurt for a long time before we fight back.”
Source: Pornography: men possessing women
“The world is never in a woman’s favor. She cannot tip the scale. The only choice is: live the same mute, unjust life you have always lived, or tear apart the world itself.”
Source: Lady Macbeth