"I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Kristina Schroder

#Feminist Quotes #Environment Quotes #Biology Quotes

“He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to”
“I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.”
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
“The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.”
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
“Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.”
“Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.”
“Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?”

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