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“I discovered everywhere female automations created by men. There was nothing of ourselves, and the little there was that rose up in protest immediately became material for their manufacturing.”

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Book:Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“Women and children are the tradition-carriers of the world. They pass on the folklore of hearth and kitchen, old beliefs, rites, superstitions, rituals, and customs. In the days when folklorists were inclined to make sweeping statements about the "strong feminine element" in folklore, it was argued that women and children were responsive to this field “because its origin antedates the emergence of reason." For many years old wives' tales were the target of ridicule, but in many old wives' tales there was, we know today, more than a bit of truth.”

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Book:Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex

Source: Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex

“This, since junior school, had been virtually my only experience of women—as fantasy figures. Reading about women in fantasy novels had set me an even more unrealistic point of view. The Lord of the Rings doesn't help, with its sexless visions of elf maidens who may as well be speaking paintings, and neither does other fantasy literature, where women seem to exist solely to be rescued or slept with. The men they want are sorcerer-kings, doomed warriors or deadly assassins. I think the idea that women might fancy good-looking, well-adjusted men who are nice to them is too much for the average fantasy-head to bear.”

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Book:The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

Source: The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

“We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles.”

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Author:Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

“Woman must write herself and bring woman into literature”

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Author:Hélène Cixous

“The heroine's journey, or her lack of one, serves as a reminder that whatever is dictated is not eternal, not predestined, not necessarily "true." The trajectory of literary women from brave to blank to bitter is a product of material social conditions. The fact that the heroine's journey is framed as a default one for women is proof of our failure to see, for so long, that other paths were possible, and that many other ones exist.”

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Book:Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion