"Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable."

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.61, Harvard University Press

Catharine MacKinnon

#Grateful Quotes #Self Quotes #Survival Quotes

“We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process”
“To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.”
“If you do right, everything will come out right.”
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.”

Source : Ronald Wright (2006). “An Illustrated Short History of Progress”
“Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.”

Source : "Vanessa Paradis, Romain Duris & Director Pascal Chaumeil Interview HEARTBREAKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 7, 2010.
“There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.”
“People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.”
“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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