Episode 57: Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
“women fight wars on two fronts, one for…the putative topic…and one simply for the right to speak”
“women fight wars on two fronts, one for…the putative topic…and one simply for the right to speak”
“to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you’re not imagining things.”
“Females were as socialized to believe sexist thinking and values as males…”
“…every man’s standing…is enhanced by the male monopoly over authority in patriarchal societies.”
“…equality, security, liberty and dignity of all human beings.”
“as women held unquestioned power…attempts at total conquest of the continents were bound to fail.”
“If God is male, then the male is god.”
“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”
“More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers.”
“Growing up, metabolizing hatred like daily bread, because I am black, because I am woman…”