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“One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die.”
― The Bright Sword
― The Bright Sword
“The freedom of women from sex oppression either matters or it does not; it is either essential or it is not. Decide one more time.”
― Right-Wing Women
― Right-Wing Women
“She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men around them. Morbid intelligence abhors the cheery sunlight of positive thinking and eternal sweetness; and women must be sunlight and cheery and sweet, or the woman could not bribe her way with smiles through a day. Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. Any vital intelligence has passionate questions, aggressive answers; but women cannot be explorers; there can be no Lewis or Clark of the female mind.”
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“There have also been, always, individual feminists- women who violated the strictures of the female role, who challenged male supremacy, who fought for the right to work, or sexual freedom, or release from the bondage of the marriage contract. Those individuals were often eloquent when they spoke of the oppression the suffered as women in their own lives, but other women, properly trained to their roles, did not listen.”
― Woman Hating
― Woman Hating
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