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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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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
— John Stuart Mill
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all…
— Aldous Huxley
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has…
— Albert Einstein
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Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
— Nigel Calder
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is…
— Remy de Gourmont
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I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving…
— Shirley Manson
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I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
— Burt Lancaster
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In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
— Barry Lopez
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a…
— Victor Hugo
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
— Russell Kirk
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Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
— Daniel Goleman
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