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“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“The ultra-centralism asked by Lenin is full of the sterile spirit of the overseer. It is not a positive and creative spirit. Lenin's concern is not so much to make the activity of the party more fruitful as to control the party--to narrow the movement rather than to develop it, to bind rather than to unify it. . . . What is today only a phantom haunting Lenin's imagination may become reality tomorrow.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Leninism or Marxism? Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman