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“Much of society is set up specifically to assist people in their process of ignoring the horrors of the world.”
― Andrea Dworkin

“Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“The witch is undoubtedly the magical woman, the liberated woman, and the persecuted woman, but she can also be everywoman.”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“Men hate intelligence in women. It cannot flame; it cannot burn; it cannot burn out and end up in ashes, having been consumed in adventure. It cannot be cold, rational, ice; no warm womb would tolerate a cold, icy, splendid mind. It cannot be ebullient and it cannot be morbid; it cannot be anything that does not end in reproduction or whoring. It cannot be what intelligence is: a vitality of mind that acts directly in and on the world, without mediation.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women