"A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience."

-- Katha Pollitt

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“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”

Source : Song: Each Small Candle
“Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.”
“In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.”
“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.”
“life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.”
“I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.”
“Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.”

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