Sublime
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alternative theories, ideas, and imaginaries are vital to our planetary and multispecies survival.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
(A fantasia de ser modelo talvez seja o sonho contemporâneo mais disseminado entre as jovens de todas as procedências.)
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Uma ideologia que fizesse com que sentíssemos que temos menos valor tornou-se urgente e necessária para se contrapor à forma pela qual o feminismo começava a fazer com que nos valorizássemos mais.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
“To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)
It turned out that strange little girls grow up to be strange young women.
Brandon Sanderson • Skyward (The Skyward Series Book 1)
In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematized oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the place of the dehumanized inferior.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Whatever the virtues of competitiveness, women are still deeply trained by society to be cautious about laying claim to greatness greater than the greatness of men.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
But nominalism is a doctrine that falls a bit short; and it is easy for antifeminists to show that women are not men.