"It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down."

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Source : "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.

Catharine MacKinnon

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“... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
“Every time we turn to Christ in faith it is like a moment of Sabbath, a little foretaste of eternal rest and glory. The gift of that moment lies not in what we do but what we receive. It is the holy time set aside to receive the greatest gift of God ever has to give, which is himself, in his own beloved Son.”

Source : Phillip Cary (2010). “Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You Don't Have to Do”, p.195, Baker Books
“I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.”
“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
“In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.”

Source : "‘You’re the Worst’ co-star Kether Donohue on the joys of being ‘TV fat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 16, 2015.
“You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.”
“Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”

Source : Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.62, Vintage
“One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.”

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