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We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
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The fight for gender equality has transmogrified from a collective goal to a consumer brand.
“What, you egg? [He stabs him.]”
― The Poems of William Shakespear
― The Poems of William Shakespear
“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS an oppression olympics going on. American racial minorities - blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Jews - all get shit from white folks, different kinds of shit but shit still. Each secretly believes that it gets the worst shit. So, no, there is no United League of the Oppressed. However, all the others think they're better than blacks because, well, they're not black.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
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