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“Any already "liberated" woman who complacently accepts her privileged situation participates in the oppression of other women.”
― Susan Sontag, On Women

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“Some how, some way, the child assuaged the tiny yet eternal yearning for the home Lina once knew where everyone had anything and no one had everything.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

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“My point is that there is nothing tragic in me knowing that the best days of my life are behind me.”
― Graham Norton, Frankie

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“The privileges of beauty are immense," said Cocteau. To be sure, beauty is a form of power. And deservedly so. What is lamentable is that it is the only form of power that most women are encouraged to seek. This power is always conceived in relation to men; it is not the power to do but the power to attract. It is a power that negates itself. For the power is not one that can be chosen freely - at least, not by women - or renounced without social censure.”
― Susan Sontag, On Women

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“One often hears that the liberation of women cannot take place without the liberation of men. The cliché is true, up to a point. Women and men share the same ultimate aim: to gain genuine autonomy, which means participating in (and being let alone by) a society that is not based on alienation and repression. But the cliché is also dangerous, for it implicitly denies that there are stages in the struggle to liberate women. Like many clichés which are true, it disarms thoughts and pacifies rage. It encourages a passive and merely reformist view of the problem.”
― Susan Sontag, On Women

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