“We keep the wolves outside by living well.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.”
― Dog Songs: Poems
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.”
― Dog Songs: Poems
“A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it.”
― The Confessions of Frannie Langton
― The Confessions of Frannie Langton
“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
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