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“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own
“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”
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“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
― I Know This Much Is True
― I Know This Much Is True
“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
― Blood, Sweat and Tears
― Blood, Sweat and Tears
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