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"We cannot allow our fear of anger to deflect us nor seduce us into settling for anything less than the hard work of excavating honesty; we must be quite serious about the choice of this topic and the angers entwined within it because, rest assured, our opponents are quite serious about their hatred of us and of what we are trying to do here."
— Jan 15, 2026 08:15AM
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Sara
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«And of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger.»
— Aug 27, 2025 10:19AM
Sara
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«Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves - along with the renewed courage to try them out.»
— Jul 28, 2025 11:02AM
Sara
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«The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.»
— Jul 28, 2025 10:59AM
Sara
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«Increasingly I get a feeling that American standards are sort of an unspoken norm, and that whether one resists them, or whether one adopts them, they are there to be reckoned with. This is rather disappointing.»
— Jul 16, 2025 11:25AM
