"The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of womenâ€™s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization."

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Source : Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

Molly Haskell

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“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hateâ€¦I choose love.”
“So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.”
“Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement and tea party movement. People like Karl Rove like to keep the racism very covert and so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity so he can say, 'Look: This is not a racist anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look: We have a black man.' And look he's polling well and he won a straw poll.”
“If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.”
“Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.”
“I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.”
“In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of the family - is different from the people you just generally bump into on the street, because you're chained together. And what happens if you break that chain? In almost every family that I know, someone has escaped, set themselves free, tried to run away - whatever what you want to call it. And often, they are made more conspicuous by their absence.”
“On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.”

Source : F. David Peat (1990). “Einstein's moon: Bell's theorem and the curious quest for quantum reality”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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