"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."

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Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.37, Columbia University Press

Kate Millett

#Happiness Quotes #True Love Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.”
“Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don't care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.”
“I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.”

Source : Arthur Ashe, Neil Amdur (1981). “Off the court”, Dutton Adult
“The Dark Knight series is all from Batmanâ€™s point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, youâ€™ll see a Superman whoâ€™s much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? Theyâ€™re not people. Theyâ€™re only lines on paper.”
“I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.”

Source : Geronimo (2012). “Geronimo: My Life”, p.33, Courier Corporation
“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“A new day brings us a tomorrow.”

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