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“Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.”
― The Confessions of Edward Day
― The Confessions of Edward Day
“Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes half the human race.”
― Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
― Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
“As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”
― Infidel
― Infidel
“To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.”
― Look Who's Back
― Look Who's Back
“Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.”
― The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
― The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
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