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“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”
― Woman at Point Zero
― Woman at Point Zero
“To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew…”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“La rabia...supone siempre la existencia de un agente que causa un mal. Se trata de una emoción que apunta con el dedo a una injusticia, no a una mera falta de fortuna, y admitir esa injusticias supone exigir una reparación...en el cuerpo de las mujeres, la rabia suele ser adjetivada como desmedida, irracional, o de origen histérico, apelativos que cumplen la función de deslegitimar las causas de esa rabia y borrar así a su responsable.”
― When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
― When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
“The Zionist strategy of branding its brutal policies as an ad hoc response to this or that Palestinian action is as old as the Zionist presence in Palestine itself. It was used repeatedly as a justification for implementing the Zionist vision of a future Palestine that has in it very few, if any, native Palestinians.”
― On Palestine
― On Palestine
“Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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