Emilie Autumn  - Quotes

 Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And...look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he find me wholesome enough? Am I fuckable? Is he allergic to feathers?! 

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Emilie Autumn  - Quotes

 Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be 

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Gloria Steinem  - Quotes

 We are becoming the men we wanted to marry 

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Erica Jong  - Quotes

 Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.  

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Margaret Atwood  - Quotes

 I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing 

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Kathleen Hanna  - Quotes

 You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie. 

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Saddam Hussein  - Quotes

 Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated 

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Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? 

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Joanna Russ  - Quotes

 This book is written in blood.

Is it written entirely in blood?

No, some of it is written in tears.

Are the blood and tears all mine?

Yes, they have been in the past. but the future is a different matter. As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being turned upside down while still in the pot, a discussion about her edibility, the lawnmowering of her behind, and a fistful of ground pepper in the snoot, she then swore a mighty oath on the ashes of her mothers (i.e. her forebears) grimly but quietly while the apples from the shaken apple tree above her dropped bang thud on her head:



OH, SOMEBODY ASIDES ME IS GONNA RUE THIS HERE PARTICULAR DAY.
 

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Audre Lorde  - Quotes

 But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. 

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Betty Smith  - Quotes

 The world was hers for the reading. 

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John Kelly  - Quotes

 Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better than their dead husbands. Y.pestis [black death germ] turns out to have been something of a feminist. 

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Patricia Schroeder  - Quotes

 I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.  

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Audre Lorde  - Quotes

 When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

 

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