The patriarchal/kyriarchal/hegemonic culture seeks to regulate and control the body — especially women’s bodies, and especially black women’s bodies — because women, especially black women, are constructed as the Other, the site of resistance to the kyriarchy. Because our existence provokes fear of the Other, fear of wildness, fear of sexuality, fear of letting go — our bodies and our hair (traditionally hair is a source of magical power) must be controlled, groomed, reduced, covered, suppressed. Yvonne Aburrow
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
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The patriarchal/kyriarchal/hegemonic culture seeks to regulate and control the body — especially women’s bodies, and especially black women’s bodies — because women, especially black women, are constructed as the Other, the site of resistance to the kyriarchy. Because our existence provokes fear of the Other,...
