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"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
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"The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other."

"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered."

"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."

"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."

"You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love."

"Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name."

"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it."

"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis."
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