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’I neither liked the look of my nose, nor the shape of my mouth. I thought my father had died, yet here he was alive in the big, ugly, rounded nose.’
— Aug 23, 2025 04:19AM
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joan
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’I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.’
— Aug 23, 2025 12:35PM
joan
is on page 106 of 152
’I realized that he had not really been in love with me, but came to me every night only because he did not have to pay.’
— Aug 23, 2025 12:30PM
joan
is on page 104 of 152
’Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows. Now I realized that the least deluded of all women was the prostitute. That marriage was the system built on the most cruel suffering for women.’
— Aug 23, 2025 12:26PM
joan
is on page 97 of 152
’Ibrahim is a fine man, and a revolutionary.’
watch him turn out no different from any other man
— Aug 23, 2025 12:16PM
watch him turn out no different from any other man
joan
is on page 26 of 152
’They cut off a piece of flesh from between my thighs[…] I closed my eyes and tried to reach the pleasure I had known before but in vain. It was as if I could no longer recall the exact spot from which it used to arise, or as though a part of me, of my being, was gone and would never return.’
— Aug 23, 2025 04:12AM
