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Leaving the library, I took the next unlocked door that I found, and found myself in a curious room filled with drapes, diaphanous sheets of white cloth that hung from the ceiling in different widths, with no apparent purpose. A few ran ...more
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H.W. Brands
“When an acquaintance commiserated upon hearing of the loss of America’s capital, Franklin replied, “You mistake the matter. Instead of Howe taking Philadelphia, Philadelphia has taken Howe.”
H.W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

“Now, by all accounts, you have the perfect life: you have the high-earning husband, the rosy-cheeked children, and the Buick in the driveway. But something isn’t right. Household tasks don’t seem to hold your attention; you snarl at your children instead of blanketing them with smiles. You fret about how little you resemble those glossy women in the magazines, the ones who clean counters and bake cakes and radiate delight. (Looking at those ads, a housewife and freelance writer named Betty Friedan “thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t have an orgasm waxing the kitchen floor.”) Everything and everyone confirm that it’s just as you suspected: the problem is you. You’re oversexed, you’re undersexed, you’re overeducated, you’re unintelligent. You need to have your head shrunk; you need to take more sleeping pills. You ought to become a better cook—all those fancy new kitchen appliances!—and in the meantime be content and grateful with what you have. The cultural pressure of the 1950s was so intense that some women, in order to survive, killed off the parts of themselves that couldn’t conform.”
Maggie Doherty, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

Mikki Kendall
“However, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” only works as clichéd shorthand; in reality the enemy of my enemy may be my enemy as well. Being caught between groups that hate you for different aspects of your identity means none of you are safe.”
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

b. binaohan
“Show me just *one* group that has won its freedom with facts, ‘reasoned’ arguments, thoughtful ideas, and loud debates. Just one.”
b. binaohan, i just want freedom

Blake Butler
“Not dying when everybody else did die is like dying harder than everybody else.”
Blake Butler, Three Hundred Million

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