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You will find love only where you can show yourself to be vulnerable

- Theodor Adorno

[womenreads]

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire

- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

[thatstudyblrontea]

Graham Allen, Intertextuality

[womenreads]

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other

Rainer Maria Rilke

[womenreads]

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky

Rainer Maria Rilke — Letters to a Young Poet. On love and marriage

[womenreads]

Stalin — Dialectical and Historical Materialism. Stalin describes idealism vs materialism. Interestingly, this applies to postmodernism which is opposed to “metanarratives” and believes nothing can ever be truly determined precisely. And of course, postmodernism is a form of idealism.

[womenreads]

Gerda Lerner — Creation of Patriarchy. Lerner explains her realizations in her study on patriarchy. She thought the historical data would show the traditional Marxist perspective. But realized that the data did not make sense, when only looking at the economic questions, until specifically sex (sexuality & procreativity) was examined.

I would add that question of sex (sexuality & reproduction) are questions of economics.

[womenreads]

Gerda Lerner — Creation of Patriarchy. Marxists often misrepresent Lerner to say that she did not believe in sex-based oppression. But she clearly points this out even right in the intro.

[womenreads]

“The two days in a woman’s life a man can best enjoy are when he marries her and when he carries her dead body to the grave. ”

- Greek Hipponax of Ephesus

[womenreads]

Dworkin — Right-wing Women. On reproduction as the only thing that’s valuable to men, and therefore, to women as self value. In extension then, homosexuality is an extinction of this womanhood.

[womenreads]

Dworkin — Right-wing Women. On bible, and story of Sodom and Gomorrah is about breakdown of society into sodomy because women are to be the appropriate targets of rape.

[womenreads]

Dworkin — Right-wing Women. On Abortion and Sexual Revolution