"The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition."

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Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.25, Open Road Media

Robin Morgan

#Believe Quotes #Oppression Quotes #Vicious Quotes

“As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.”

Source : "Jack in a Box". Zagorin, A., content.time.com. April 30, 2005.
“We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.”
“The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.”
“I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.”
“Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.”
“The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful of trades that are windfalls. The real skill is in not LOSING money!”
“I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.”
“A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulÂ—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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