"I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism in gender politics and there [isn't] anything particularly progressive about it. That's what is baffling. You've got conservatives acting like liberals touting free speech and due process."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Laura Kipnis

#Thinking Quotes #Wings Quotes #Feminism Quotes

“The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.”
“Some dreams are best not to wake up from.”

Source : "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda". Judit Kawaguchi, The Japan Times, January 16, 2007.
“I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.”
“Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.”
“Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.”
“It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.”
“Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.”
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”

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