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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. ↗

#identity #longer #mute #responsibility #say

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property. ↗

— Kate Millett

#because #boxed #days #farm #got

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves. ↗

— Kate Millett

#could #did #far #had #horrifying

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. ↗

— Kate Millett

#better #conditioning #could #discriminated #found

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. ↗

— Kate Millett

#declared #divorce #each #equal #everybody

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska. ↗

— Kate Millett

#housewives #making #nebraska #said #sister

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. ↗