What's a quote from a story that actually impacted how you view the world?
For me it's these two: "You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure." By John Berger And "Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate" by Bunny Burstow
Both of these are quotes i read when i was way younger and i think these are the reason i am so "woke" now, since then I've read a lot more feminist books who gave even more interesting analysis on gender and womanhood but these two are what started it all
“Many women resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships” by Andrea Dworkin. This quote really made me think and stuck out to me. reply
a lil bit of My Pancreas Broke But My Life Got Better in my soul
a lil bit of Boku no Papa to Papa no Hanashi in my heart
and a lil bit of Akari to Kare wa Nayamashii in my brain
and biggest shout-out to that speech Lorelei Lee does at the end of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:
"Don’t you know that a man being rich, is like a girl being pretty? You...... reply
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. by your one and only Ursula K Leguin
and since you quote...... reply
Gotta say, Reverend Insanity has some interesting ideas, although not welcome sometimes.
"Time has never healed the wounds of the heart, except that your hearts have grown old. The worst thing is not your body growing old but your hearts aging."
“Loyalty to others is betrayal to oneself, betraying others is loyalty to yourself.” reply