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“Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“sexist ideology will tend to discriminate between men and women, typically by alleging sex differences beyond what is known or could be known, and sometimes counter to our best current scientific evidence. Misogyny will typically differentiate between good women and bad ones, and punishes the latter. Overall, sexism and misogyny share a common purpose—to maintain or restore a patriarchal social order.”
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
“If alcohol fuels our Dionysian tendencies, caffeine nurtures the Apollonian.”
― This Is Your Mind on Plants
― This Is Your Mind on Plants
“This also turns out to be a pretty good summary of the drug war, which, besides doing so much to erode our liberties and fill our prisons, served to distract us from reckoning the true toll of the opiates we happened to classify as legal.”
― This Is Your Mind on Plants
― This Is Your Mind on Plants
“She was smart enough to want more but tired enough to accept the way things were.”
― Difficult Women
― Difficult Women
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