It wasn’t the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our youth, because we might be rather old before the conservers left and the compassionate men came back. Saturday.
This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy. It may just be their fear and guilt talking: What if I am treated as I have treated others? But with all the power and money that is behind it, this backlash could imprison us in a hierarchy all over again. As.
This was a small taste of a general problem: the invisibility in the media of the many women of color who pioneered the women’s movement.
As novelist Margaret Atwood wrote to explain women’s absence from quest-for-identity novels, “there’s probably a simple reason for this: send a woman out alone on a rambling nocturnal quest and she’s likely to end up a lot deader a lot sooner than a man would.
When teachers of randomly selected students are told their students are slow, they become slower; when teachers believe their students are gifted, they become more gifted.
There are black doctors and doctors and women novelists and novelists. Any less powerful group gets the adjective, while the powerful group takes the noun. The less powerful group usually knows the more powerful one much better than vice versa. People of color have to understand white people in order to survive; women have had to know men. Only the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
In most societies, a woman is encouraged to give birth to another person more than she is encouraged to give birth to herself.
For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.
We’re also learning that the most dangerous time often comes after a victory.
Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.
To think about taking our place in nature instead of conquering it is a deep change in the way we see ourselves and the world. It means changing from binary and linear thinking to a cyclical paradigm that is a new declaration of interdependence.
Also India had taught me that change grows from the bottom, like a tree, and that caste or race can double or triple women’s oppression.
Many are looking for the right person. Too few are trying to be the right person.
What our bodies can do is way more important than how they look. Sports help young women realize that our bodies are instruments, not ornaments.
Your daughters are watching you.
We are the women our parents warned us about – and we are proud!
Prostitution isn’t the oldest profession, it’s the oldest oppression.
Needing approval is a female cultural disease.
The less gender-polarized the culture, the lower the degree of violence and the greater the degree of democracy.
This correspondence was so precious to them that some women were buried with their letters of friendship, yet enough survive for us to see that they wrote in a slender column down the center of each page, leaving wide margins as spaces for a correspondent to add her own words.