28-10-2022, 10:21 AM
The tired woman's epitaph
"Here lies a woman who was always tired
she lived in a house where help was not hired
her last words on earth were 'Dear friends I am going
where washing ain't done, nor sweeping, nor sewing;
but everything there is exact to my wishes;
for where they don't eat there's no washing of dishes.
I'll be where loud anthems will always be ringing,
but, having no voice, I'll be clear of the singing.
Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for never -
I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever."
“Consensual sex” is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as “non consensual sex”, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn’t say “breathing swimming” and “non breathing swimming”, you say swimming and drowning.
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."
Louise Brown
"Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged."
Jessica Valenti
"Well behaved women rarely make history."
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Man enjoys the great advantage of having a god endorse the code he writes; and since man exercises a sovereign authority over women it is especially fortunate that this authority has been vested in him by the Supreme Being. For the Jew, Mohammedans, and Christians, among others, man is Master by divine right; the fear of God will therefore repress any impulse to revolt in the downtrodden female."
Simone de Beauvoir
“If men could get pregnant, then abortion would be a sacrament.”
Irish woman taxi driver, to Flo Kennedy & Gloria Steinem.
“I could go on and on, but the reality is that violence and discrimination against women are still endemic in every society in the world.”
Sue Kedgely
"I cannot understand anti abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. the shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life long poverty show us that. Whatever we tell ourselves, we've only made the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred'.
Caitlin Moran
"Men of quality do not fear equality."
Anon
"Here lies a woman who was always tired
she lived in a house where help was not hired
her last words on earth were 'Dear friends I am going
where washing ain't done, nor sweeping, nor sewing;
but everything there is exact to my wishes;
for where they don't eat there's no washing of dishes.
I'll be where loud anthems will always be ringing,
but, having no voice, I'll be clear of the singing.
Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for never -
I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever."
“Consensual sex” is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as “non consensual sex”, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn’t say “breathing swimming” and “non breathing swimming”, you say swimming and drowning.
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."
Louise Brown
"Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged."
Jessica Valenti
"Well behaved women rarely make history."
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Man enjoys the great advantage of having a god endorse the code he writes; and since man exercises a sovereign authority over women it is especially fortunate that this authority has been vested in him by the Supreme Being. For the Jew, Mohammedans, and Christians, among others, man is Master by divine right; the fear of God will therefore repress any impulse to revolt in the downtrodden female."
Simone de Beauvoir
“If men could get pregnant, then abortion would be a sacrament.”
Irish woman taxi driver, to Flo Kennedy & Gloria Steinem.
“I could go on and on, but the reality is that violence and discrimination against women are still endemic in every society in the world.”
Sue Kedgely
"I cannot understand anti abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. the shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life long poverty show us that. Whatever we tell ourselves, we've only made the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred'.
Caitlin Moran
"Men of quality do not fear equality."
Anon
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)