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It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
(Marguerite Duras (b. 1914), French author, filmmaker. "House and Home," Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).)
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The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children—we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.
(Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946), U.S. writer. Woman Hating, ch. 9, p. 23, E.P. Dutton, New York (1974).)
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The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children—we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.
(Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946), U.S. writer. Woman Hating, ch. 9, p. 23, E.P. Dutton, New York (1974). . . .
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Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 6, p. 281, AMS Press (1990).)
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The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
(Jane Rule (b. 1931), Canadian lesbian, feminist, fiction writer, and essayist; born in the U.S. A Hot-Eyed Moderate, part 2 (1985).)
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Women in drudgery knew
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live
(Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), U.S. poet. "Wreath of Women," lines 42-46 (1944).)
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Why are women ... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. A Room of One's Own, ch. 2 (1929).)
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The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.
(Phyllis Rose (b. 1942), U.S. biographer. Women's Lives, Introduction, p. 32, Norton (1993).)
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (1898). Charteris, in The Philanderer, act 2, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 1, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1970).)
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Misogynist—A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
(H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 620, Knopf (1949).)
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