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From childhood onward, we were instructed to not do things—not go here, not work there, not go out at this hour or talk to those people or wear this dress or drink this drink or partake of adventure, independence, solitude; refraining was
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“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Things We Never Got Over
― Things We Never Got Over
“A group of people moving in the same direction thinking the same thing is a cult,” she observed. “A group of people moving in the same direction thinking different things is a movement.”10”
― They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties
― They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties
“conservative economics was pervasive, particularly the idea that the market was the most effective arbitrator of social and political decisions.”
― They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties
― They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties
“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”
― Leaving Time
― Leaving Time
“It was the most devastating discovery of my life that I had no real right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness out of doors, that the world was full of strangers who seemed to hate me and wished to harm me for no reason other than my gender, that sex so readily became violence, and that hardly anyone else considered it a public issue rather than a private problem,”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence
― Recollections of My Nonexistence
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