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Post by Tamrin on Feb 28, 2010 15:31:28 GMT 10
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them
Michel de Montaigne (Born this day 1533)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2010 10:45:03 GMT 10
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels
Aristotle (Died this day 322 BCE)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 20, 2010 12:06:02 GMT 10
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything
B.F. Skinner (Born this day 1904)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 24, 2010 17:45:28 GMT 10
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it — but there is
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest — blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says — Work; and to us it says — Seem! To you it says — As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says — Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep
Olive Schreiner (Born this day 1855)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 25, 2010 8:33:26 GMT 10
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry
Gloria Steinem (Born this day 1934)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 28, 2010 10:49:46 GMT 10
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly
Virginia Woolf (Died this day 1941)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2010 11:28:01 GMT 10
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic
Evelyn Waugh (Died this day 1966)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 14, 2010 10:16:48 GMT 10
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form
Simone de Beauvoir (Died this day 1986)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2010 7:56:56 GMT 10
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them
Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen) (Born this day 1885)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 27, 2010 8:38:15 GMT 10
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour
Mary Wollstonecraft (Born this day 1759)
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