His shadow stretched out past mine. I remembered Mom telling me how frightening men were, all men really, how helpless it often felt to be a woman among men, and for the first time I understood what she meant.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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Martha Gellhorn
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
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Jane Austen
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Audre Lorde
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-, ’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to...
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Mary Daly
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
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George Carlin
More Quotes By Meredith Russo
[S]omething had to change. Because I had changed.
I think I'm allergic or something. I feel kinda strange... sort of floaty and light-headed."" You ain't sick, hon, " Mom said. She kissed me cheek and hugged me so tight I thought I might break a rib. "That's joy.
I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.
His shadow stretched out past mine. I remembered Mom telling me how frightening men were, all men really, how helpless it often felt to be a woman among men, and for the first time I understood what she meant.
I have a past, okay? And you really don't want to get involved with it.'' Everybody's got a past, ' he said. 'That doesn't mean you can't have a future.
