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Sheila Jeffreys has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of…
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The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of…
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Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating…
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Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation…
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and…
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Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
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It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free…
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Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
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As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women…
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Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality…
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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of…
— Steven Levenkron
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Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.
— Unknown Author
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Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.
— Donald Barthelme
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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that…
— Bell Hooks
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I hold the blade in trembling hands Prepare to make it, but Just then the phone rang, I never had the nerve…
— Pink Floyd
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Ripped apart, limb by limb, shattereing bones, heart caving in. Self mutilation, scar after scar, empty and having warn like tar.
— SangFroid Stalker
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