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  • #1
    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
    ― Ernesto Guevara
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
    ― Ernesto Che Guevara
    tags: justice, social-justice
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق”
    ― Che Guevara
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  • #4
    Bonnie Burstow
    “Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
    ― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
    tags: feminism, mothers, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, radical-feminism
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  • #5
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: emotion, language, patriarchy
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  • #6
    Mackenzi Lee
    “Because women don't have to be men's equals to be considered contenders; they have to be better. That's the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”
    ― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
    tags: misogyny, patriarchy, sexism
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  • #7
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet
    tags: patriarchy
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  • #8
    Joy McCullough
    “Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word?”
    ― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint
    tags: patriarchy, woman, womanhood
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    Roxane Gay
    “It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best.”
    ― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
    tags: fear, not-that-bad, patriarchy, ptsd, rape, rape-culture, roxane-gay, survival, victim-blaming
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  • #10
    Amanda Lovelace
    “Curves and fat and rolls are a colossal ‘fuck you’ to the patriarchy – our accidental rebellion.”
    ― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
    tags: body, body-image, patriarchy, woman, womanhood
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  • #11
    Kim Liggett
    “I’m trying to hold back my emotions, but I can feel my face contorting. That strange heat moving to my cheeks. I always thought it was magic moving through me, but now I know it to be rage.”
    ― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year
    tags: feminism, misogyny, patriarchy, rage
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  • #12
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
    tags: humor, patriarchy, prudence
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  • #13
    Jennifer Saint
    “It was the women, always the women, be they helpless serving girls or princesses, who paid the price.”
    ― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
    tags: patriarchy
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  • #14
    bell hooks
    “Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?”
    ― Bell Hooks
    tags: capitalism, equality, feminism, feminist-movement, justice, men, patriarchy, racism, white-supremacy, women
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  • #15
    Sarah B. Pomeroy
    “Misogyny was born of fear of women.”
    ― Sarah B. Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
    tags: feminism, gender, gender-studies, history, misogyny, patriarchy, women-in-history, women-s-history
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  • #16
    Wilkie Collins
    “Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: argument, control, dispute, empowerment, intelligence, men, self-control, superiority, wit, women
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  • #17
    William Golding
    “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: empowerment, equality, gender, men, superiority, women
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  • #18
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money
    tags: adeptness, dexterity, men, poise, superiority, women
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  • #19
    Socrates
    “Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: equality, superiority, women
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  • #20
    “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
    ― Madonna
    tags: ambition, bitch, discrimination, gender-roles, life, misogyny, sexism, tough
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  • #21
    Andrew Sean Greer
    “So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”
    ― Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
    tags: chauvinism, feminism, misogyny, womanhood
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  • #22
    Bella Mackie
    “I like to be on my own, and have never understood what weakness exists in people who crave the company of others all the time.”
    ― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
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  • #23
    Bella Mackie
    “Life is so short and we spend so much of it talking to terrible people about the minutiae of their nothing lives. I cannot do it with any enthusiasm.”
    ― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
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  • #24
    ابن قيم الجوزية
    “وجاءت الإمام أبو بكر محمد بن داود الظاهري فُتيا مضمونها:
    يابن داود، يا فقيه العراق .. أفتِنا في قواتلِ الأحداقِ
    هل عليها بما أتتْ مِن جناحٍ .. أم حلالٌ لها دمُ العُشَّاقِ؟
    فكتب الجواب بخطه تحت البيتين:
    عندي جوابُ مسائل العشَّاقِ .. فاسمعهُ مِن قَرحِ الحَشا مُشتاقِ
    لمّا سألتَ عن الهوى هيجتَني .. وأرقتَ دمعًا لم يكن بمُراقِ
    إن كان معشوقًا يعذِّب عاشقًا .. كان المُعذَّبُ أنعمَ العُشَّاقِ!”
    ― ابن القيم الجوزية الداء و الدواء
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