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"Guys, apparently Mary Renault was ANOTHER self-hating lesbian author from the 1940s. How do I keep attracting these women to my Want-To-Read shelf? Why are we here? Just to suffer? Please leave favourite feminist authors in the comments. I need a cleanse." — Sep 29, 2026 11:38PM
"Guys, apparently Mary Renault was ANOTHER self-hating lesbian author from the 1940s. How do I keep attracting these women to my Want-To-Read shelf? Why are we here? Just to suffer? Please leave favourite feminist authors in the comments. I need a cleanse." — Sep 29, 2026 11:38PM
It was exactly like seeing a swarm of locusts settle on to a harvest field, you know they’re not going to leave even one ear of corn behind.
Beautiful prose, needs a semicolon to separate clauses, not a comma.
“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.”
― The Penelopiad
― The Penelopiad
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.
Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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