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“Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves.”
― Sex Object
― Sex Object
“When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.”
― Sex Object
― Sex Object
“Are we not, ethically speaking, obligated to stop its (violence) further dissemination, to consider our role in instigating it, and to forment and cultivate another sense of a culturally and religiously diverse global political culture?”
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
“Those who commit acts of violence are surely responsible for them; they are not dupes or mechanisms of an impersonal social force, but agents with responsibility. On the other hand, these individuals are formed, and we would be making a mistake if we reduced their actions to purely self-generated acts of will or symptoms of individual pathology of 'evil'.”
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
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