"Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly."

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Patricia Hill Collins

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“Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.”

Source : "5 Great Insights from Lena Dunham’s Recent Book Tour" by Louis Virtel, uproxx.com. October 02, 2014.
“The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?”
“I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.”
“I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.”
“I'm not happy with just repeating myself.”
“...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape youâ€™re marching towards. Everyone knows what youâ€™re against; show them what youâ€™re for.”
“In Italy there are 5 million legal migrants. They're integrated, and they're welcome. The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying. There are more and more clashes, more and more demands. And I doubt the compatibility of Italian law with Muslim law, because it's not just a religion but a law. And problems can be seen in Great Britain as well as in Germany, so reassessing our coexistence is fundamental.”
“Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.”

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