"It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else"

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Source : Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.56, Seal Press

Inga Muscio

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Age Quotes

“I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.”
“I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.”
“Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.”
“I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.”
“what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.”
“In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.”
“The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.”
“The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being moral requires some cognitive ability. If virtue is about desires, it is worth remembering that you can't desire some things without being able to conceive of them. Suppose a virtuous person will desire to make people happy and desire to tell the truth. You can't desire to make people happy without having the concept "happy" and you can't desire to be truthful if you don't have have the concept "lie", so a cat or a baby cannot desire these things.”

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