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The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Topic

Yin and yang Duality of man

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

A Room of One's Own

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 1.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Topic

Freedom of thought Freedom

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

A Room of One's Own

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

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Topic

Man and animals Men and women

Author

Simone de Beauvoir

Source

The Second Sex

Genre

Historical literature Feminist literature

Language

French

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 1, Gallimard, 1949.

Current Citation

De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

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Topic

Women's empowerment Feminism Gender relations Men and women Women

Author

Gloria Steinem

Source

Ms. Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Steinem, Gloria. "Words and Change." Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983. Originally published in Ms. Magazine, Jul./Aug. 1982.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae

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Topic

Differences between men and women Men and women

Author

Camille Paglia

Source

Sexual Personae

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Yale University Press, 1990, ch. 8.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Topic

Women's attractiveness Patriarchy

Author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Source

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Genre

Political literature Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman

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Topic

Patriarchy

Author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Source

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman

Genre

Political literature Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde

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Topic

Oppression Politics

Speaker

Audre Lorde

Source

The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lorde, Audre. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." Modern Language Association's Lesbian and Literature Panel. 28 Dec. 1977, Chicago, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Lorde, Audre. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

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Topic

Benefits of adversity

Author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Source

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Matrimony." Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. London: Joseph Johnson, 1787.

Current Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters." The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Marilyn Butler and Janet Todd. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.

We need more dissent and less dogma.

Camille Paglia

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Topic

Thinking outside the box Thinking for oneself Dissent Dogma Doubt and skepticism

Speaker

Camille Paglia

Source

Spiked

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Paglia, Camille. "Feminist Trouble." Interviewed by Ella Whelan. Spiked Magazine, 10 Dec. 2015, www.spiked-online.com/2015/12/10/feminist-trouble/.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Topic

Patriarchy Societal values

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

A Room of One's Own

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.

It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Topic

Societal values Gender relations

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

A Room of One's Own

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.

If God is male, then the male is God.

Mary Daly

Beyond God the Father

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Topic

Patriarchy Nature of God Oppression of women

Author

Mary Daly

Source

Beyond God the Father

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Beacon Press, 1973, ch. 1.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

This is the End

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Topic

Enemies Strangers

Author

Stella Benson

Source

This is the End

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Benson, Stella. This is the End. Macmillian, 1917.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon.

Gloria Steinem

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Topic

Women and society Patriarchy

Author

Gloria Steinem

Source

Sisterhood Ms.

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Steinem, Gloria. "Siserhood." New York, 20 Dec. 1971

The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Topic

Oppression of women Men and women

Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898, ch. 1.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Mary Astell

An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex

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Topic

Wealth as burden Downsides of wealth Wealth

Author

Mary Astell

Source

An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1696 1690s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Drake, Judith [published as written by a lady]. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. London: A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696.

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Danger of a Single Story

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Topic

Stereotypes

Speaker

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source

The Danger of a Single Story

Medium

Speech

Genre

TED Talk

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TED, July 2009, https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcript?language=en.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

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Topic

Voting rights Women's rights

Author

Alice Rossi

Source

Along the Suffrage Trail

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Columbia University Press, 1973, pt. 2.

Men may have had their own very good reasons for bringing women up in servitude, but the soul of a servant is not an attractive thing, and one of the most infuriating aspects of women's constricted upbringing is that it has made them less attractive, even in the eyes of their constrictors, than they should have been. Man has twisted and pruned women out of all recognition and then not liked the results.

Janet Radcliffe Richards

The Sceptical Feminst

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Topic

Patriarchy Oppression of women

Author

Janet Radcliffe Richards

Source

The Sceptical Feminst

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Richards, Janet Radcliffe. The Sceptical Feminst: A Philosophical Enquiry. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, ch. 5.