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Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.


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Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.



Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.



Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.



Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.



If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.



He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.



(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.



All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.



Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.



[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.





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If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.



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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.



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Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind.



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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.



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I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.




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