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As far as "detours" are concerned, they're always more interesting than the main road.

Mary Kelly

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Kelly, Mary. Mary Kelly. Phaidon Press, 1997. Originally stated in an interview with Douglas Crimp. c. 1990.

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

Charlotte Whitton

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Whitton, Charlotte. Canada Month. June 1963.

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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

Marilyn French

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French, Marilyn. The Women's Room. Simon & Schuster, 1977, ch. 19.

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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

Laura Mulvey

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Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen, 1 Oct. 1975.

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We don't want so much to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman schlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male schlemiel.

Bella Abzug

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"Schlemiel" is a Yiddish term meaning, roughly, an unlucky, incompetent or foolish person.

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Abzug, Bella. US News and World Report. 25 Apr. 1977.

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Simone de Beauvoir

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De Beauvoir, Simone. La Vieillesse [The Coming of Age]. Éditions Gallimard, 1970.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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

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

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Words mean something different depending on the person who says them, right?

Gloria Steinem

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Steinem, Gloria. "Keynote Speech." Women and Power: Connecting Across the Generations Conference. 11 Sept. 2009, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, USA.

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