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“Human beings are more alike than different—damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn’t have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the
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“You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction—controlling it absolutely.”
― Adulthood Rites
― Adulthood Rites
“Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter.”
― Dawn
― Dawn
“And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences like rape, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, honour killing, female infanticide, banishment to menstrual huts, surrogacy tourism or death by stoning for the act of adultery. Clue: it’s not possession of a female gender identity.”
― Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
― Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
“...how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.”
― Adulthood Rites
― Adulthood Rites
“They forced you to have kids?” the man asked. “One of them surprised me,” she said. “It made me pregnant, then told me about it. Said it was giving me what I wanted but would never come out and ask for.” “Was it?” “Yes.” She shook her head from side to side. “Oh, yes. But if I had the strength not to ask, it should have had the strength to let me alone.”
― Adulthood Rites
― Adulthood Rites
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