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“Man-the-Aggressor is at the apex of the evolutionary struggle, king of the earth because he is the most aggressive, the cruelest.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

“It's only through form that we can realize emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Women dream until they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. All their plans and visions seem vanished, and they know not where; gone and they cannot recall them. And they are left without the food either of reality or of hope.”
― Florence Nightingale, Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women

“Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because—”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening