Status Updates From La mistica della femminilità

"کدام نیرو در فرهنگ ما آن‌قدر قدرت دارد که زن را وا می‌دارد خانه‌دار بودن خود را چنان مهم بداند که فرصت‌های دیگر برایش تقریبا بی‌معنا شود؟"

"زنی که تنها تحصیلات ابتدایی دارد احتمال بیشتری دارد که هیچ‌گاه اوج جنسی را تجربه نکند در حالی که زنی که کالج را به پایان رسانده احتمال رسیدن به اوج جنسی برایش بیشتر است"
از استادامون تعریف میکردن زنی از قشر پایین در سن حدود ۵۰ سالگی بهش مراجعه کرده بود که برای اولین بار موقع رابطه بعد از چندین بار بارداری و زندگی مشترک به ارگاسم رسیده بود و فکر می‌کرد مشکل داره و تشنج کرده🙃

“The women who formally launched the women’s rights movement [..] met each other when they were refused seats at an anti-slavery convention in London. Shut off behind a curtain in the gallery, Elizabeth Stanton [..] and Lucretia Mott [..] decided that it was not only the slaves who needed to be liberated.”

“Is it so hard to understand that emancipation, the right to full humanity, was important enough to generations of women, still alive or only recently dead, that some fought with their fists, and went to jail, and even died for it?”

“They had to prove women were human. They had to shatter, violently if necessary, the decorative Dresden figurine […]. They had to prove that woman was not a passive, empty mirror, not a frilly, useless decoration, not a mindless animal, not a thing to be disposed of by others […] before they could even begin to fight for the rights [..] to become the human equals of men.”

Keeping women in their caterpillar state, not allowing them to become moths/butterflies… I’m gonna jump

“It is my thesis that as Victorian culture did not permit women to accept or gratify their basic sexual needs, our culture does not permit women to accept or gratify their basic need to grow and fulfill their potentialities as human beings, a need which is not solely defined by their sexual role.”