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Siddharth is on page 32 of 419 of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
And just in case there was any doubt about Plato’s contempt for the passions, Timaeus adds that a man who masters his emotions will live a life of reason and justice, and will be reborn into a celestial heaven of eternal happiness. A man who is mastered by his passions, however, will be reincarnated as a woman.
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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Siddharth is on page 111 of 159 of Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
Ien Ang suggested that "the inevitable moments of failure of communication between feminists should be accepted as the starting point for a more modest feminism, one which is predicated on the fundamental limits to the very idea of sisterhood…we would gain more from acknowledging and confronting the stubborn solidity of ‘communication barriers’ than from rushing to break them down in the name of an idealised unity.”
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

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Siddharth is on page 105 of 159 of Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
Femininity, as we know it, is (Susan Griffin argued) romantic nonsense, something that has to be carefully contrived and preserved. It is the product of ‘a nostalgic tradition of imposed limitation’.
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

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Siddharth is on page 38 of 159 of Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
‘I will not call Catherine Macaulay's a masculine understanding (as claimed by a John Adams)’, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote, ‘because I admit not such an arrogant assumption of reason; but I contend that it was a sound one...' She valued Macaulay, she continued, because she ‘contends for laurels’ while most women ‘only seek for flowers’.
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

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Siddharth is on page 36 of 159 of Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
But ‘what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?’ Mary Astell asked in her 1700 book Some Reflections Upon Marriage. She admitted, rather reluctantly, that marriage was necessary to propagate the species, but insisted that a wife is all too often simply ‘a Man’s Upper Servant’.
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

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Siddharth is on page 25 of 159 of Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
In May 1649 yet another petition for the release of the Leveller prisoners was turned away sarcastically: ‘It was not for women to Petition, they might stay at home and wash the dishes.’ To which the women, unabashed, retorted, ‘we have scarcely any dishes left us to wash’.
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

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Siddharth is on page 105 of 647 of Midnight’s Children
Under the pressure of these streets which are growing narrower by the minute, more crowded by the inch, she has lost her 'city eyes'.When you have city eyes, you cannot see the invisible people, the men with elephantiasis of the balls and the beggars in boxcars don't impinge on you, and the concrete sections of future drainpipes don't look like dormitories
Sep 06, 2015 06:13AM Add a comment
Midnight’s Children

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Siddharth is on page 9 of 560 of Gone Girl
"There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold."
Feb 18, 2015 11:23AM Add a comment
Gone Girl

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Siddharth is on page 117 of 307 of The Golden Gate
"As for that sad blancmange, a poet-
The world is hard; he ought to know it.
Driveling in rhyme's all very well;
The question is, does spittle sell?"
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The Golden Gate

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Siddharth is on page 22 of 307 of The Golden Gate
"He goes home, seeking consolation
Among old Beatles and Pink Floyd -
But 'Girl' elicits mere frustration,
While 'Money' leaves him more annoyed.
Alas, he hungers less for money
Than for a fleeting Taste of Honey.
Murmuring, 'Money - it's a gas! ...
The lunatic is on the grass,'
He pours himself a beer. Desires
And reminiscences intrude
Upon his unpropitious mood..."
Mar 06, 2014 07:23AM Add a comment
The Golden Gate

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Siddharth is on page 126 of 360 of Madame Bovary
"As for Emma, she did not ask herself whether she loved him. Love, she thought must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,—a hurricane of the skies, which sweeps down on life, upsets everything, uproots the will like a leaf and carries away the heart as in an abyss."
Feb 21, 2014 08:00AM Add a comment
Madame Bovary

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Siddharth is on page 96 of 320 of Bombay Stories
'Why do you like whorehouses and shrines?' I asked.
He thought for a moment and then answered, 'Because there, from top to bottom, it's all about deception. What better place could there be for a person who wants to deceive himself?'
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Bombay Stories

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Siddharth is on page 153 of 646 of Jane Eyre (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and...
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Jane Eyre (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)

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