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they weren't "feminine," they lacked "charm," now became a great comfort.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Self-invention, once the imagined path to boundless opportunity, has become a burden under which a multitude of Americans hoping to fast track their careers, or simply secure their basic necessities, have labored.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
on a visit to New York City, he saw hungry-looking men sleeping in alleyways, as if one foot were already in the grave. “These people are Les Miseràbles of America,” he wrote to his parents in September 1965. “People that don’t make it in America’s social race to succeed are simply run over.”
Ariel Sabar • My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Maria Popova • Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement
Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you
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She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make