"There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality cannot come naturally to many women: I think that widespread heterosexuality among women is a highly artificial product of the patriarchy. . . . I think that most women have to be coerced into heterosexuality."

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Source : Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

Marilyn Frye

#Thinking Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Heterosexuality Quotes

“When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.”
“If the game of life ended tonight, would you be a winner?”
“Language is fossil Poetry.”
“My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.”
“Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.”

Source : Besant, Walter (2014). “Dorothy Forster”, p.73, Read Books Ltd
“Let's give them something to talk about, other than H A I R!”

Source : "'American Idol' says sayonara to". www.today.com. April 19, 2007.
“Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.”
“Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.”

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