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“History, people like to say, is written by the winners. The truth is, some of the most profound works on the past were written by those who considered themselves history's losers.”
― The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
― The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
“Really good clothes never go out of fashion.”
― Shocking Life
― Shocking Life
“From the onset, reformist white women with class privilege were well aware that the power and freedom they wanted was the freedom they perceived men of their class enjoying.”
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“Women who were lesbians, of all races and classes, were at the forefront of the radicalization of contemporary female resistance to patriarchy in part because this group had their sexual preference already placed themselves outside the domain of heterosexist privilege and protection, both in the home and in the workplace. No matter their class, they were social outcasts.”
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
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