Short, relevant quotes. Not entire books please [grin]

[BeyondFemaleElitist]

Thought a thread like this might be useful yesterday when reading something else. Anyway, today I am rereading "woman hating" and spotted...

"There are two definitions of woman. There is the good woman. She is a victim. There is the bad woman. She must be destroyed. The good woman must be possessed. The bad woman must be killed or punished. Both must be nullified"

who wrote that?

Dworkin

“I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Jane Austen.

The beginning of Pride and Prejudice.

Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Bronte.

The end of Jane Eyre.

"Like a compass needle that points north, a mans accusing finger always finds a woman"
A thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini

Miss Jenkyns ... would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

Cranford

"great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment".
Karl Marx.

"Everything is about sex except sex which is about power"
Oscar Wilde

Rape - 'a conscious process by which all men keep all women in a state of fear'. Susan Brownmiller. Against Our Will is far from a perfect book but it is essential.

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with independent will, which I now exert to leave you..."

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Brontë

I hope this is not too long
"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
Arundhati Roy

George Bernard Shaw:
" I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. "

“I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.”

Margaret Atwood

“My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me”

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen