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Give a man power and he’ll call it destiny. Give a woman power and she’ll call it justice.

-- Maya Angelou (Interview in Essence Magazine, 1996)

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A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.

-- Melinda Gates (Speech at Women Deliver Conference, 2015)

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Woman was the last Work of Creation, and consequently the most perfect.

-- Sophia, A Person of Quality (Woman's Superior Excellence Over Man, 1740 (circa))

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Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
—Carl Sagan

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The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage.

-- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967)

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“Our bottleneck today is our attention. So we need to optimize our systems around our attention, not around agents producing more stuff.” — Alex Kotliarskyi

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Men govern with force, women rule with love; which is the higher power?

-- Margaret Fuller (Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845)

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If women behaved like men, they’d be in jail or in charge.

-- Gloria Steinem (Speech at Smith College, 1990)

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A quotation from Richard Steele

I consider the soul of man as the ruin of a glorious pile of buildings; where, amidst great heaps of rubbish, you meet with noble fragments of sculpture, broken pillars and obelisks, and a magnificence in confusion.

Richard Steele (1672–1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1709-10-29), The Tatler, No. 87

More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/86924…

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Most men are absurdly easily conquered. Their weakest point is their vanity.

-- Edith Wharton (The Custom of the Country, 1913)

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"Life is the ultimate experience. You have to experience it in order to write about it."

-Viveca Lindfors as Professor Taub
The Sure Thing (1985)
Dir: Rob Reiner

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 & 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺" (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯) 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗶𝗱 -

Enough of reading 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 this book, let's see what how on point Said was as he laid the groundwork for so much post-colonial thought.

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By producing human beings the universe has woken up and turned to contemplate itself.
-- Richard Rathe

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A man in the UK is 230 times more likely to be raped himself than be falsely accused of rape, so low is the number of false allegations.

-- Laura Bates (Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All, 2020)

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Men are quick to boast of strength, yet they tremble at women’s laughter.

-- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999))

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors.

-- Evelyn Cunningham (Interview in The New York Times, 1969)

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thyssenkrupp AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides industrial and technology solutions and services in Germany and internationally. The…
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Women’s virtues are not only equal to men’s, but in many respects more sublime.

-- Anonymous (“Sophia”) (Woman’s Superior Excellence over Man, 1739)

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
-- Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

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Every society that silences women silences its future.

-- Hillary Clinton (Speech at Women in the World Summit, 2012)

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So what would happen if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?... Street guys would invent slang (“He’s a three-pad man”) and “give fives” … “Yeah, man, I’m on the rag!”

-- Gloria Steinem (Ms. Magazine essay: If Men Could Menstruate, 1978)

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This is from Tolstoy’s 1885 story “What Men Live By,” where God says it to the angel Michael.

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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
-- Mother Jones

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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. We see them, but only in order to avoid colliding with them.
—Alan Watts

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When men call women emotional, they mean we feel too much to be controlled by them.

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Interview with BBC Woman’s Hour, 2018)

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Pretty interesting bio...

See biography for Louis Althusser:
https://civilsimian.com/Louis-Althusser

Read Louis Althusser's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/362/content

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Women are the backbone of society and the heartbeat of the world.

-- Beyoncé (Public statement, 2019)

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The most important thing is to remember that we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. As spiritual beings we are infinite, and as human beings we are finite.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
—Albert Camus

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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering, even the meaning of dying well."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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A quotation from Molly Ivins

My fellow citizens, we live in a great nation. It’s occasional resemblance to a lunatic asylum is purely coincidental and doubtlessly not the intention of the Author Of Us All.

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1992-01), “Being an ‘Arthur’,” Mother Jones magazine, Vol. 17. No. 1 (1992-01/02)

More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/17490/

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Confront your soldiers with the deed itself; never let them know your design. When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

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It's really simple...unqualified universal human necessity answered is the everybody wins scenario that is the gem of ethics. That's going to require the exclusion of the "Me first because I'm special..." people.

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot

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I, down deep in my soul, feel women are so much more powerful than men ever could be.

-- Caitlyn Jenner (MAKERS Conference interview recapping Glamour Women of the Year, 2016)

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Women’s stories are the blueprint of survival.

-- Roxane Gay (@roxanegay) (Hunger, 2017)

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

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The true excellence of women shines brightest when compared to the failings of men.

-- Moderata Fonte (The Worth of Women, 1600)

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The very fact that men try to oppress women is proof of their fear of women’s superiority.

-- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999))

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All life is an experiment.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote of the day:

Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism. We are the vandals. - Type O Negative

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For the men of Wu and the men of Yueh are enemies; yet if they are crossing a river in the same boat and are caught by a storm, they will come to each other’s assistance just as the left hand helps the right.

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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

-- Audre Lorde (The Uses of Anger, 1981)

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"I can't believe that people can be reformed except from within."

-Orson Welles as Franz Kindler
The Stranger (1946)
Dir: Orson Welles

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