In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I ...did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gende...r politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female do...mination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, tha...t weakness and imperfection is the perfection of a woman, that I am stark mad in love with ignorance; and thus shall I allure her by calling her [a] fool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think the people over here are coming to realize what would happen if Germany and Italy won a European war. We would be out of t...he picture entirely.... If I were a German conqueror what would I do? Obviously I would have the British navy out of the way and the French army out of the way.... The first thing I would do is look around and say, "What outside territories do I want to take for myself?"... We are not quite ready to take on the United States but we can do it by indirection very nicely. We are going to dominate South America ... without violating the Monroe Doctrine. [FDR set forth a scenario of economic domination of Latin America by giving Argentina a choice of agreeing to German domination of its army by economic blackmail by virtue of the fact that Germany controlled all the agricultural markets in Europe on which Argentina depended for livelihood and the same for Brazil.] It is a perfectly open and shut thing and, if you have the complete, physical power to do it, you win.... [F]rom Hitler's point of view, it is rational. And, if any of us were in his place, with his methods, we would do it. I made myself a hump-back, dyed my skin in several places with great spots of yellow; so that, when I look'd in the glass, I was almost frighten'd at my own figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as f...ree as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range t...hrough every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »