Brigitte Jia

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“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: dehumanization, differences, different, discrimination, economics-society, institutional-oppression, institutionalized, misfits, outsiders, profit, rejection, social-outcasts, society, surplus, survival-of-the-fittest

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“Men succeed. Women get married.
Men fail. Women get married.
Men enter monasteries. Women get married.
Men start wars. Women get married.
Men stop them. Women get married.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

tags: feminism, gender-roles

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“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
― George Carlin

tags: atheism

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“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: authority

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“Then he started his period.
One week in bed.
Two doctors in.
Three painkillers four times a day.
And later a letter to the powers-that-be
demanding full-paid menstrual leave twelve weeks per year.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Selected Poems

tags: feminism, gender-roles, humour, menstruation

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