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- I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that…
- Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the…
- We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that…
- I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It…
- But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself,…
- There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
- Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure…
- I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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