"Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire."

-- Andrea Dworkin

#Sex Quotes #Class Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.”

Source : "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
“One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.”
“Nobody can do it for you.”
“Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?”

Source : "Dem debaters target Bush", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.
“What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.”
“Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.”
“I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.”
“The ground is my ocean, Iâ€™m the shark, and most people donâ€™t even know how to swim.”

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