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“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”
― Pride & Prejudice screenplay
― Pride & Prejudice screenplay
“Would you walk away from Omelas?”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“If I want to define myself, I first have to say, “I am a woman”; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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