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“Like a forest tree that has grown up entwined with another may keep its shape long after its companion has been taken down, my spirit had bent to the shape of her and now could neither straighten itself nor accommodate to the shape of someone else.”
When Women Were Warriors: A Hero's Tale — Catherine M. Wilson
“Still I know that it will require a considerable length of time to eradicate the firmly rooted prejudices which sensualists have planted; it will also require some time to convince women that they act contrary to their real interest on an enlarged scale, when they cherish or affect weakness under the name of delicacy, and to convince the world that the poisoned source of female vices and follies, if it be necessary, in compliance with custom, to use synonymous terms in a lax sense, has been the sensual homage paid to beauty[.]” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
“Women are every where in this deplorable state; for, in order to preserve their innocence, as ignorance is courteously termed, truth is hidden from them, and they are made to assume an artificial character before their faculties have acquired any strength. Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming around its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
“I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love, which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
“In the government of the physical world it is observable that the female in point of strength is, in general, inferior to the male. This is a law of nature; and it does not appear to be suspended or abrogated in favour of woman. A degree of physical superiority cannot, therefore, be denied—and it is a noble prerogative! But not content with this natural pre-eminence, men endeavour to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influences of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
“There is no real feminism that does not have at its heart the tempering discipline of sex-class consciousness: knowing that women share a common condition as a class, like it or not.” Right-Wing Women — Andrea Dworkin
“The liberation of women requires facing the real condition of women in order to change it. ‘We’re all just people’ is a stance that prohibits recognition of the systematic cruelties visited on women because of sex oppression.” —> Hell yes. Right-Wing Women — Andrea Dworkin
“If one sees that women are being systematically exploited and abused, then the defense of anything, the acceptance of anything, that promotes or continues that exploitation or abuse expresses a hatred of women, a contempt for their freedom and dignity; and an effort to impede legislative, social, or economic initiatives that would improve the status of women, however radical or reformist those measures are, is an expression of that same contempt.” Right-Wing Women — Andrea Dworkin
“These two reproductive technologies—artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization—enable women to sell their wombs within the terms of the brothel model. Motherhood is becoming a new branch of female prostitution with the help of scientists who want access to the womb for experimentation and for power.” Right-Wing Women — Andrea Dworkin
“The right of men to women’s bodies for the purpose of intercourse remains the heart, soul, and balls of male supremacy: this is true whatever style of advocacy is used, Right or Left, to justify coital abuse.”
Right-Wing Women — Andrea Dworkin
“Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or else the woman is an outlaw.” Right-Wing Women — Andrea Dworkin
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and the other commonplaces of female experience that are excavated from the past or given by contemporary survivors should leave the heart seared, the mind in anguish, the conscience in upheaval. But they do not. No matter how often these stories are told, with whatever clarity or eloquence, bitterness or sorrow, they might as well have been whispered in wind or written in sand: they disappear, as if they were nothing. The tellers and the stories are ignored or ridiculed, threatened back into silence or destroyed, and the experience of female suffering is buried in cultural invisibility and contempt. Because women’s testimony is not and cannot be validated by the witness of men who have experienced the same events and given them the same value, the very reality of abuse sustained by women, despite its overwhelming pervasiveness and constancy, is negated. It is negated in the transactions of everyday life, and it is negated in the history books, left out, and it is negated by those who claim to care about suffering but are blind to this suffering.” Right-Wing Women — Andrea Dworkin
“Volumes abound on the psychology of victims, fewer on the nature of attackers. Understanding the latter is the key to addressing sexual violence in our world. For every survivor whose claims we discredit, for all our smirking and victim blaming, our fixation on how low cut a woman’s blouse was, we are shifting our focus off predators who will continue raping. Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back — Sarah Ransome
“The line in my impact statement about losing my church had an effect I never foresaw. It garnered the attention of national publications that began investigating the missteps churches so often make when handling abuse. Some prominent evangelical groups that had heralded my victim-impact statement for its gospel message cooled when I continued to speak about the scandals and serious allegations made against prominent leaders and religious groups—the community of Christians I call my own. With a heavy heart, I saw again that everyone appreciates advocacy when it’s directed to those ‘outside the camp,’ but when it demands that we evaluate our own faith communities, political parties, favorite sports team, candidates, or beloved leaders, we scramble for reasons why things are ‘different’ in that space. This is the blind spot that keeps abusers protected and convinces victims that it’s never safe to speak up.”
What Is a Girl Worth? My story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics — Rachael Denhollander
“I don’t know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break; and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter — the Eternity they have entered — where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.”
Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte
“I had never felt a more intimate touch, because it was she who touched me.”
When Women Were Warriors Book 2: A Journey of the Heart — Catherine M. Wilson
“My love for her filled my heart. Everything was there all at once—the sweet warmth of tenderness, the ache of longing, a joy that bubbled up inside me and made me want to laugh, a piercing pain that brought tears into my eyes, and a deep glow that would, with the slightest breath, burst into the flame of desire. Some hearts break from love, Namet said. Mine was about to break.”
When Women Were Warriors Book 2: A Journey of the Heart — Catherine M. Wilson