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What We Can Know
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Toni Morrison
“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

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

Deborah Levy
“Anyway, he continues, what I really missed in the lockdowns was buying coffee. Sipping a flat white. If my identity is so fragile it depends on a flat white to keep it together, I can’t see the point of those years reading difficult theory and philosophy. Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.”
Deborah Levy

Susan Sontag
“Any serious program of liberating women must start from the premise that liberation is not just about equality (the liberal idea). It is about power. Women cannot be liberated without reducing the power of men. Their liberation not only means changing consciousness and social structure in ways that will transfer to women much of the power monopolized by men. The nature of the power itself will thereby change, since throughout history power has itself been defined in sexist terms.”
Susan Sontag, On Women

Susan Sontag
“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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