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


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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.



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.



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

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



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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'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.



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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.



It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.



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