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#1

“It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before Doc was even born. Perhaps it was a takeoff on Freud’s seduction theory or the more generic practice of blaming victims for being alive. Its origins were unclear, but no one had ever had to take full responsibility for their own actions since.”
― Sarah Schulman, Empathy

tags: freud, psychiatry, psychology

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#2

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, harassment, images, law, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, rape, self-esteem, sexual-harassment, sexual-violence, sexuality, society

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#3

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

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#4

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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#5

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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#6

“...people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and can’t change other people, i.e. the world. Marxism has been replaced by postmodernism. Psychoanalysis has been replaced by twelve-step programs. It was the end of the content.”
― Sarah Schulman, Empathy

tags: 12-step-programs, freud, marxism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis

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#7

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#8

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: feminism

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#9

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write

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#10

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women

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#11

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr

tags: feminism, power, women

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#12

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women

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#13

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality

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#14

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anais Nin

tags: dreams, life, love

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#15

“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”
― Anais Nin

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#16

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

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#17

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anais Nin

tags: writing

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#18

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth

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#19

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#20

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#21

“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war

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#22

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

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#23

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

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#24

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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#25

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Joe Klein, Primary Colors

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#26

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

tags: jealousy, morality

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#27

“The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...”
― Sarah Waters

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#28

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo

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#29

“I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: incidental, life, love

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#30

“I was never the mythic lucky-born after all, the post-war harbinger of hope, peace and progress. That hope and faith grew in parental minds. It all fell apart when we moved to Canada. We brought the War with us, tattooed on our souls.”
― Kaimana Wolff, Broken Sleep

tags: world-war-ii

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