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“Los que pueden creer que estas historias son sólo cuentos tienen mejores posibilidades.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“No deseo que las mujeres tengan poder sobre otros hombres, sino sobre si mismas.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Cuando nuestros representantes no pelean por defender nuestros derechos sino contra nuestro derecho a ejercerlos, la única respuesta es la desobediencia. Puede que no tengamos nada que ocultar, pero sí tenemos mucho que temer. En una sociedad ultravigilada, todo el mundo es antisistema.”
― Marta Peirano, El pequeño libro rojo del activista en la red

“Reforzando la voz de una mujer, refuerzas un poco la de todas.”
― Leticia Dolera, Morder la manzana: La revolución será feminista o no será

“Cuando mires a los ojos a otra mujer, reconócete en ella.”
― Leticia Dolera, Morder la manzana: La revolución será feminista o no será

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in earnest.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

“I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

“I’m a sick woman, a madwoman, a ball-breaker, a man-eater; I don’t consume men gracefully with my fire-like red hair or my poisoned kiss; I crack their joints with these filthy ghoul’s claws and standing on one foot like a de-clawed cat, rake at your feeble efforts to save yourselves with my taloned hinder feet: my matted hair, my filthy skin, my big fat plaques of green bloody teeth. I don’t think my body would sell anything. I don’t think I’d be good to look at. O of all diseases self-hate is the worst and I don’t mean for the one who suffers it!”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

“In my sleep I had a dream and this dream was a dream of guilt. It was not human guilt but the kind of helpless, hopeless despair that would be felt by a small wooden box or geometrical cube if such objects had consciousness; it was the guilt of sheer existence.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

“The Witch, however, is a woman who stands entirely on her own. She is more often than not an outsider, and her gift is transformation. She is a change agent, and her work is sparked by speech: an incantation, a naming, a blessing, a curse.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

“Certainly they have much in common with witches: women who create things other than children are still considered dangerous by many. They are marginalized, trivialized, or totally ignored.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors,' and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous 'cash payment.' It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto