

“Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe," concluded the American writer Susan Brownmiller in her groundbreaking account of rape, Against Our Will, published in 1975”
― Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
― Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

“Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues. [I] don't know where to go.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking

“I just want to exist, quietly breathing.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman

“Surely, she says, encouraging others to lie on our behalves must be a worse sin than lying ourselves.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking

“If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.”
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
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