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“Women are all female impersonators to some degree.”
― Susan Brownmiller

“[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.”
― Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

“A world without rape would be a world in which women moved freely without fear of men. That some men rape provides a sufficient threat to keep all women in a constant state of intimidation, forever conscious of the knowledge that the biological tool must be held in awe for it may turn to weapon with sudden swiftness borne of harmful intent...Rather than society's abberants or"spoilers of purity," men who rape have serves in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorists guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world has ever known.”
― Susan Brownmiller

“The tyranny of Venus is felt whenever a woman thinks—or whenever a man thinks and tells a woman—that her hips are too wide, her thighs are too large, her breasts are too small, her waist is too high, her legs are too short to meet the current erotic standard.”
― Susan Brownmiller, Femininity

“As Beauvoir remarked, “It is not easy to play the idol, the fairy, the faraway princess, when one feels a bloody cloth between one’s legs; and, more generally, when one is conscious of the primitive misery of being a body.”
― Susan Brownmiller, Femininity

“The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie.
But listen to me,
Bright maiden, proud youth
The tale is a lie;
What it tells is the truth.”
― Traditional folktale ending

“In a weird sort of way, cursed forests and evil wraiths aren't half as terrifying as the thought that all the things that have given you hope may not be real at all.”
― Cassandra Yorke, Mary, Everything

“And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

“Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!
No, Andrea....unhappy is the land that needs a hero.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”
― H. G. Wells