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Attention Quote by Cris Mazza

“If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?” quote by Cris Mazza — Download Open image

“If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?”

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If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without…

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I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

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What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with my emotions…

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Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From…

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In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm -…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

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