“Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.”
― The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
― The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
“As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.”
― The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Pariarchal Legacy
― The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Pariarchal Legacy
“Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too frequent smile, so that when you saw Mignon being happy, you always thought: "It can't last." She had the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet she existed thus, without memory or history, only because her past was too bleak to think of and her future too terrible to contemplate; she was the broken blossom of the present tense.”
― Nights at the Circus
― Nights at the Circus
“Wherein does a woman’s honour reside, old chap? In her vagina or in her spirit?”
― Nights at the Circus
― Nights at the Circus
“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
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