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Niku Letang
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“We stayed, like prisoners, only we chose to be prisoners and we loved our prison; it was not a bad prison. And when things only got worse in our country, we pulled our shackles even tighter and said "We are not leaving America, no, we are not leaving.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
“Women must be "covered up" to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Gender roles are so deeply conditioned in us that we will often follow them even when they chafe against our true desires, our needs, our happiness.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Hatred is a leech, the thing that sticks to a person's skin, that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them. It clings to one's skin, the way a leech does, burrowing deeper
and deeper into the epidermis so that to pull the parasite out of the skin is to tear off that part of the flesh and to kill it in its self flagellating.”
― The Fishermen
and deeper into the epidermis so that to pull the parasite out of the skin is to tear off that part of the flesh and to kill it in its self flagellating.”
― The Fishermen
“We condition girls to aspire to marriage and we do not condition boys to aspire to marriage, and so there is already a terrible imbalance at the start. The girls will grow up to be women preoccupied with marriage. The boys will grow up to be men who are not preoccupied with marriage. The women marry those men. The relationship is automatically uneven because the institution matters more to one than the other. Is it any wonder that, in so many marriages, women sacrifice more, at a loss to themselves, because they have to constantly maintain an uneven exchange?”
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