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- For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should…
- I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I…
- I’ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn’t have a pimp. She could pick and…
- There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
- I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
- A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must…
- I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers."…
- Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and…
- Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.
- Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
- The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious…
- Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have…
- Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that…
- Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
- Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths…
- A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
- Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
- The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
- The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
- Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only…
- No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules…
- If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may…
- Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
- In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
- The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle