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A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book. ↗


— Caroline Mytinger


#destiny #girl #woman #women #destiny

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or pregnant by some triumph of technology or perpetrators or victims of some hideous crime or any combiniation of the above. Women's issues are often disguised as people issues, unless they are relegated to the women's pages which amazingly still suvive. Senior figures are all male; even the few women who are deemed worthy of obituaries are shown in images from their youth, as if the last fourty years of their lives have been without achievement of any kind. If you analyse the by-lines in your morning paper, you will see that the senior editorial staff are all older men, supported by a rabble of junior females, the infinitely replacesable 'hackettes'. ↗


— Germaine Greer


#gender #sexism #women #men

Be present in all things and thankful for all things. ↗


— Maya Angelou


#live-in-the-moment #present

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made. ↗


— F. Sionil José


#philippines #poverty #prostitution #social #women

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that… ↗


— Louisa May Alcott


#louisa-may-alcott #secrets #louisa-may-alcott

And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her." Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out! ↗


— Joseph Delaney


#witch #women #revenge

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step. She must have had the value of several elephant tusks upon her. She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. ↗


— Joseph Conrad


#colonialism #women #men

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants… ↗


— Louisa May Alcott


#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #louisa-may-alcott

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. ↗


— Louisa May Alcott


#louisa-may-alcott #work #louisa-may-alcott

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her… ↗


— Louisa May Alcott


#louisa-may-alcott #louisa-may-alcott






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