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“Man-the-Aggressor is at the apex of the evolutionary struggle, king of the earth because he is the most aggressive, the cruelest.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

“It's only through form that we can realize emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac

“One cannot turn one's back on the women or on the burden of memory they carry. If one values women as human beings, one will not turn one's back on the women who are being hurt today and the women who will be hurt tomorrow.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

“Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because—”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Women dream until they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. All their plans and visions seem vanished, and they know not where; gone and they cannot recall them. And they are left without the food either of reality or of hope.”
― Florence Nightingale, Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women