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She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene a...more

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In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is ...more

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As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become ...more

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When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what ...more

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The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

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Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for ...more

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Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and r...more

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Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in fr...more

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Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction like bad skin orcircles under the eyes. It is not a...more

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Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all per...more

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The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic ...more

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Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be debased...more