“If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.”
― The Female Eunuch
― The Female Eunuch
“These ruptures between police and communities undermine trust in government, as well as the constitutional legitimacy of government as represented by such police action and its prosecutorial and juridical blessings. Distrust of government is an unfortunate trend now shared by both extremes of the political spectrum. Tea”
― White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
― White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
“I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.”
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“Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
― Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
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