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Sophia

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Sophia’s Quotes

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“Heightened awareness often gives the illusion that a problem is lessening. This is most often not the case. It may mean simply that a problem has become so widespread it can no longer remain hidden or be ignored.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

tags: bell-hooks, feminism

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“She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: passion

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“Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.”
― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

tags: ignorance, truth

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“Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

tags: bell-hooks, feminism, literature, love, patriarchy, relationships

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