“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Emerson's Essays
― Emerson's Essays
“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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