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But over recent years I have watched in dismay as parts of the women’s movement have narrowed the focus to the individual woman’s journey to success, as if this can take place independent of any political context.
“Whenever women are banned from the starting blocks, a man is bound to come first and if anger is banned from the ladylike behaviour, nobody is going to raise her voice in protest.”
― Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
― Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Beauty standards become more extreme when patriarchal power is questioned or threatened in some way”
― Ugly: Why the World Became Beauty-Obsessed and How to Break Free
― Ugly: Why the World Became Beauty-Obsessed and How to Break Free
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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