"All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash."

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Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

Susan Faludi

#Determination Quotes #Children Quotes #Self Quotes

“Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]”
“There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.”
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

Source : Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.
“By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.”
“For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.”

Source : "Globalization and Its Critics". The American Prospect, Volume 12, July 2-16, 2001.
“It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”
“Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so many honest lives, and then with the insane nuclear arms race and confrontations.”
“I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.”

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