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Post by Tamrin on Oct 23, 2010 6:22:54 GMT 10
Power is neither male or female
Michael Crichton (Born this day 1942)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 28, 2010 5:57:06 GMT 10
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic
Evelyn Waugh (Born this day 1903)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 29, 2010 5:57:08 GMT 10
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am
Jean Giraudoux (playwright) (Born this day 1882)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 18, 2010 6:32:04 GMT 10
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up
Margaret Atwood (Born this day 1939)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 19, 2010 6:46:10 GMT 10
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Appointed Britain's poet laureate this day 1850)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2011 9:37:53 GMT 10
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body
Robin Morgan (Born this day 1941)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2011 6:42:09 GMT 10
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women
Alan Sillitoe (Born this day 1928)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 19, 2011 10:00:07 GMT 10
Words, words that gender things!
Bro. Sir Richard Francis Burton (Born this day 1821)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 21, 2011 6:43:57 GMT 10
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, manners — almost everything. Vocabulary. Semiotic usages. Clothing. Even food. Women — women tend to eat less — It's extremely hard to separate the innate differences from the learned ones. Even where women participate equally with men in the society, they still after all do all the childbearing, and so most of the child-rearing
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The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost imposs- ible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby?... there is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protected / protective. One is respected and judged only as a human being. You cannot cast a Gethnian in the role of Man or Woman, while adopting towards 'him' a corresponding role dependant on your expetations of the interactions between persons of the same or oppositve sex. It is an appalling experience for a Terran
Ursula K Le Guin (Born this day 1929)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 11, 2013 9:00:43 GMT 10
Very early, I understood that women were required to be other than what they were
Andre Dubus (Born this day 1936)
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