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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.


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Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.



Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.



Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.



Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.



Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.



Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.



You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.



So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.



The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.



What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.





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Money is a tool. Used properly it makes something beautiful- used wrong, it makes a mess!



Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference

Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference



Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.



I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.



I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.



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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.



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Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.



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Novels are longer than life.



You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.



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