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November 15 - November 26, 2024
What could women accomplish if they did not have to continually mind their skirts, keep them from dragging in the mud or getting trampled on the steps of an omnibus? If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world!
Clothing is one means of enforcing women’s social and political subordination.
DIANA: Respectable my arse! Why would anyone want to wear girls’ clothes unless they had to? If you walk around the city as a boy, people don’t notice you or ask what you’re doing all by yourself, my pretty.
What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?
Religion is a tool some men use to control others.
DIANA: And I have! You know, it would do you good to curse a little more. . . . MARY: Don’t you have something productive to do? Like, I don’t know, drink poison?
