"Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange."
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"raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?"
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"An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began."
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"The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally."
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"I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight."
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"people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice."
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"Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women."
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"There's something contagious about demanding freedom."
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"The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion"
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"Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will."
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"The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition."
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"No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise."
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"... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at."
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"It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom."
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"I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do."
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"If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity."
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"Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?"
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"A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that."
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"Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group."
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"The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same."
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