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Homens hétero estavam entusiasmados para encontrar feministas sexualmente liberadas que também pagavam metade da conta nos encontros. Conflitos e problemas começaram quando a feminista lasciva se propôs a exercer controle total sobre seu corpo e a dizer “não” quando bem entendia.
bell hooks • Comunhão: a busca das mulheres pelo amor (Trilogia do Amor) (Portuguese Edition)
It might also point toward the way that valuing a woman for her difficulty can, in ways that are unexpectedly destructive, obscure her actual, particular self. Feminist discourse has yet to fully catch up to the truth that sexism
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Teach her that the idea of “gender roles” is absolute nonsense.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
I think it had something to do with the knowledge you suffer when you’re an outsider—I mean suffer; I do not mean undergo or employ or tolerate or use or enjoy or catalogue or file away or entertain or possess or have. That knowledge is, of course, the perception of all experience through two sets of eyes, two systems of value, two habits of expect
... See moreJoanna Russ • The Female Man
Though the “utopian” moment was never completely lost, increasingly, feminism has operated in a framework in which the system—its goals, its priorities, its productivity deals—is not questioned and sexual discrimination can appear as the malfunctioning of otherwise perfectible institutions.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
In our society, women have lived, and have been despised for living, the whole side of life that includes and takes responsibility for helplessness, weakness, and illness, for the irrational and the irreparable, for all that is obscure, passive, uncontrolled, animal, unclean—the valley of the shadow, the deep, the depths of life.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
It brings to mind women who have stood up, spoken back, risked lives, homes, relationships in the struggle for more bearable worlds.
Sara Ahmed • Living a Feminist Life
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