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Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out…
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Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being…
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Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool,…
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The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without…
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There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was…
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Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people…
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It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether…
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Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means…
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Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”
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Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a…
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My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
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You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
— Deepak Chopra
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I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with…
— Lucretia Mott
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You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a…
— Rajneesh
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I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain…
— Rajneesh
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Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very…
— Rajneesh
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Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.
— Darren Rowse
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
— John Ralston Saul
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Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East…
— Ron Silver
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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system…
— Jacques Derrida
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When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused…
— Julia Serano
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So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's…
— Kevin DeYoung
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