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Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol read more
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time read more
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that read more
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a read more
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me read more
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.
