Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador. Erica Jong
I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?" This was said to a young woman who had already spent five years and over $10, 000 getting to that...
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Joanna Russ
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
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James Madison
Unless institutional power reinforces the hurt and prejudice suffered by a group, it is not oppression. By definition, a person of color cannot be racist, or a woman sexist, because they do not have the institutionalized power to act on their prejudices. Also, by definition,...
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Linda Stout
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
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George Orwell
As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.
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Souad Mekhennet
More Quotes By Erica Jong
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't...
I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
