“Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural”
― Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
― Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt — of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on Sunday morning at 7 A.M., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning our dead — while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of being silent and impotent and alone, while we taste new possibilities and strengths.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Male and female babies may be born. But those complex, gender-loaded individuals we call men and women are produced. The complex assembly line includes all of our socialization processes, of which the acquisition of scientific knowledge is but one. Since our culture offers a privileged place to science, however, it is an especially important one.”
― Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
― Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
“repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
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