"They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place."

Feminism, Freedom, Women, Equality, Rights

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"They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place."

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"Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Feminism, Literary, Thinking, Woman

"A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

Feminism, Control, Beauty, Power

"Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions. We have those definitions. Let's reclaim them. We can share the simple yet powerful message that feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression."

bell hooks, American Critic

Feminism, Politics, Oppression, Equality

"As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one."

John Irving, American Novelist

Feminism, Choice, Decision, Awareness

"Lifestyle feminism ushered in a notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being slowly removed from feminism. And the assumption prevailed that no matter what a woman's politics, be she conservative or liberal, she too could fit feminism into her existing lifestyle."

bell hooks, American Critic

Feminism, Politics, Lifestyle, Identity

"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Feminism, Women, Occupation, Risk, Freedom

"Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men's world with impervious codes, may feel like dots in an uncharted territory. Discovering the crucial points, which don't line up with the unbearability of reality, may be a key to the right compass in life. ['Terra incognita']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Feminism, Women, Future, Alienation, Discovery

"Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?"

Betty Buckley, American Actress

Feminism, Help, Word

"The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

Feminism, Woman, Beauty, Identity, History

"Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Humans don't make sense."If you're only now learning that, Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention."

Life

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

Leisure

"Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be."Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do!Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years""We'll fix that" Kelsier promised."

Action

"Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth."

Memory

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."

Thinking

"Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you'd be accustomed to it by now.He grunted. "Be careful, girl. You wouldn't want to accidentally insult a man."The last thing I'd want to do is accidentally insult you, Vathah, Shallan said. "To think that Icouldn't manage it on purpose if I wanted!"

Conflict

"He didn't recruit me, Cett pointed out. "I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco."I wish I cared enough to apologize, Elend said, staring at them."

Recruitment

"My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently."

Motivation

"One can have a wit, but not a witless."

Humor

"So, Marasi said, "you traded a dead man's scarf for another dead man's gun. But the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic-"Don't try, Waxillium said. "Logic doesn't work on Wayne."I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller, Wayne explained. "It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle."

Humor