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Sheryl Sheryl said: " I would be keenly disappointed in Evangelical Gothic had I purchased it for the main subject, because I haven't even finished the first chapter, and Herbert quotes Wesley and the Bible like a New Ager trying to prove reincarnation -- he plucks out pr ...more "

 
The Deadliest Ind...
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Sheryl Sheryl said: " Haven't finished it yet because this book is interesting but some of it is kind of repetitious. Which, to be fair, is true of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, too, and I think is probably a given when the author is covering so many similar Indian tribe ...more "

 
Christmas Unwrapp...
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Andrea Dworkin
“What’s involved in doing something about all of this? The men’s movement seems to stay stuck on two points. The first is that men don’t really feel very good about themselves. How could you? The second is that men come to me or to other feminists and say: “What you’re saying about men isn’t true. It isn’t true of me. I don’t feel that way. I’m opposed to all of this.”

And I say: don’t tell me. Tell the pornographers. Tell the pimps. Tell the warmakers. Tell the rape apologists and the rape celebrationists and the pro-rape ideologues. Tell the novelists who think that rape is wonderful. Tell Larry Flynt. Tell Hugh Hefner. There’s no point in telling me. I’m only a woman. There’s nothing I can do about it. These men presume to speak for you. They are in the public arena saying that they represent you. If they don’t, then you had better let them know.”
Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin
“Men can deny that poor women or working-class women or prostituted women have the capacity to read or write their own language, but some of those women will read or write their own language anyway; they will risk everything to learn it. In the slaveholding South in the United States, it was forbidden by law to teach slaves to read or write; but some slaveowners taught, some slaves learned, some slaves taught themselves, and some slaves taught other slaves. In Jewish law, it is forbidden to teach women Talmud, but some women learned Talmud anyway.”
Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin
“In every case, I have used the discourse of men as a source, without distorting it. I have said what men say about women, about the nature of sex, about the nature of nature. The men remain cultural heroes, promethean truth-tellers; surely they mean no harm. I am excoriated (surely I mean some harm) for saying what they say but framing it in a new frame, one that shows consequences to women. The ones they do it to have been left out. I put the ones they do it to back in. In exposing the hate men have for women, it is as if it becomes mine. To say what they do is to be what they are, except that they are entitled, they are right, in what they do and what they say and how they feel. Maybe they are tragic but they are never responsible: for being mean or cruel or stupid. When they advocate rape, that is normal and neutral. When I say they advocate rape, I am engaging in the equivalent of a blood-libel (this is the meaning of the “man-hating” charge); I slander them as if I invented the sadism, the brutality, the exploitation, that they engage in and defend.”
Andrea Dworkin

Helen MacInnes
“There were some types of men whose wilfulness thrived on the excuses that were made for them. And they were the kind of people who never knew when they had gone far enough in their selfishness, who never knew when to stop. The more allowances that were made for them, the more they presumed.”
Helen MacInnes, Assignment in Brittany

Anthony Bloom
“God can save the sinner you are, but not the saint you pretend to be.”
Anthony Bloom

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