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there's no justice, there's only love.
All men are rapists and that's all they are
Never underestimate the power of helplessness!
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?
in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.
I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.
The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.
'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.
you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.
Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.
Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.
There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.
I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.
Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.
All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.