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“Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men—control, violence, insult, contempt—that no threat seems empty.”
― Intercourse
― Intercourse
“Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice...
Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”
― Intercourse
Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”
― Intercourse
“He ordenado una biblioteca a lo largo de mi vida y los libros han desordenado mi vida.”
― Conferencia sobre la lluvia
― Conferencia sobre la lluvia
“I sleep among ravishing illusions and wake to their burden.”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for all the good it did me.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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