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"I’m disappointed by this book.. I was really interested in the subject. I think its a no-brainer that misogyny and fascism go hand in hand,as an ideology that worships dominance + infantilizes/strips the weak of autonomy…but I couldn’t get through even the first section. so many wild conclusions drawn from mundane passages. after this I felt I couldnt trust the author to make good arguments" — Feb 02, 2026 08:07PM
"I’m disappointed by this book.. I was really interested in the subject. I think its a no-brainer that misogyny and fascism go hand in hand,as an ideology that worships dominance + infantilizes/strips the weak of autonomy…but I couldn’t get through even the first section. so many wild conclusions drawn from mundane passages. after this I felt I couldnt trust the author to make good arguments" — Feb 02, 2026 08:07PM
“The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but “information” alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thinking as the lack of it.”
― Escape from Freedom
― Escape from Freedom
“Abel wanted a traditional marriage with a traditional wife. For a long time I wondered why he ever married a woman like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way. If he wanted a woman to bow to him, there were plenty of girls back in Tzaneen being raised solely for that purpose. The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality. While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way. This is particularly true of theories which are based on statistics. The distinctive thing about real facts, however, is their individuality. Not to put too fine a point on it, once could say that the real picture consists of nothing but exceptions to the rule, and that, in consequence, absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity.”
― The Undiscovered Self
― The Undiscovered Self
“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”
― Visual And Other Pleasures
― Visual And Other Pleasures
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
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