“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, “Take me to your leaders.” ...
Instead I will say, “Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths.”
These are worth it. These are what I have come for.”
― In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Instead I will say, “Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths.”
These are worth it. These are what I have come for.”
― In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no longer can manage. It is seeking right now to undo psychologically and covertly all the good things that feminism did for women materially and overtly.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
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