“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.” ChildrenSeemsSilenceExpressionColdSpeechSilentSignificantUnhappinessOutsidersWidowsAccompanyInconsequentialDeceasedImpassioned Author:Anton Chekhov
“The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.” WayChildrenDoeSeemsFoundWealthSleepRaceClassUniqueAccessSignificantOppressionGutsTerritoryOppressedMachineryTangled Author:Andrea Dworkin