Wanda Wanjiku
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Wanda Wanjiku
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"Oh I smell a five star on the horizon. This book is radicalizing me in ways I didn’t know I needed to be radicalized." — Dec 23, 2025 04:59AM
"Oh I smell a five star on the horizon. This book is radicalizing me in ways I didn’t know I needed to be radicalized." — Dec 23, 2025 04:59AM
Wanda Wanjiku
is currently reading
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"I’ve got issues with Simone, but damn did she read this world for filth." — Aug 07, 2025 12:57PM
"I’ve got issues with Simone, but damn did she read this world for filth." — Aug 07, 2025 12:57PM
“What fundamentally distinguishes torture, understood in human rights terms, from the events these women have described is that torture is done to men as well as to women. Or, more precisely, when what usually happens to women as these women have described it happens to men, which it sometimes does, women's experience is the template for it, so those men, too, are ignored as women are. When the abuse is sexual or intimate, especially when it is sexual and inflicted by an intimate, it is gendered, hence not considered a human rights violation.”
― Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
― Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
“By making the term "man" subsume "woman" and arrogate to itself the representation of all humanity, men have built a conceptual error of vast proportion into all of their thought. By taking the half for the whole, they have not only missed the essence of whatever they are describing, but they have disroted it in such a fashion that they cannot see it correctly. As long as men believed the earth to be flat, they could not understand its reality, its function, and its actual relationship to other bodies in the universe. As long as men believe their experiences, their viewpoint, and their ideas represent all of human experience and all of human thought, they are not only unable to define correctly in the abstract, but they are unable to describe reality accurately.”
― The Creation of Patriarchy
― The Creation of Patriarchy
“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“First of all, nobody gave us anything. It makes me furious when I hear that they gave us suffrage. Excuse me? It took 72 years of unrelenting, unbroken organizing grassroots effort to get women's suffrage. It took 113 years to get rid of child labor by law. It took similarly long periods of organized effort to accomplish any advance in social policy.”
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“Erik shrugged. “We didn’t have many options. I tossed a coin.” Dann’s eyes widened. “You tossed a fucking coin?” Erik shrugged again. “Yup.” Dann’s face twisted in disbelief as he muttered, “A coin… he tossed a fucking coin.”
― Of Blood and Fire
― Of Blood and Fire
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