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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: one-hundred-years-of-solitude
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: inspiration, responsibility
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    W.B. Yeats
    “In dreams begin responsibilities.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, Responsibilities
    tags: dreams, responsibility
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
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    Abigail Adams
    “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
    ― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
    tags: feminism
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    Madeleine K. Albright
    “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

    (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
    ― Madeleine Albright
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, misogyny, morality, protectiveness, social-norms, stereotypes, womanhood, women
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: humor
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Había estado en la muerte, en efecto, pero había regresado porque no pudo soportar la soledad.”
    ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: gabriel-garcia-marquez, realismo-magico, soledad
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: love
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
    ― Marquez Gabriel Garcia
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    Ian McEwan
    “Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: meaning, self
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    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
    ― Margaret Sanger
    tags: abortion, feminism, women
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  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “I am a Woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal Woman,
    that's me.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: feminism
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: emancipation, empowerment, feminism, gender, men, misogyny, women
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  • #24
    So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters;
    “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: feminism, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: empowerment, fiction, gender, on-fiction, problems, women, women-writers
    159 likes



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