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“We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of 'liberation for women' is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? 'Vogue' by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY?”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?”
― The Casual Vacancy
― The Casual Vacancy
“Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.”
― The Casual Vacancy
― The Casual Vacancy
“I only want power so I can get books.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?”
― Suicide Notes
― Suicide Notes
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