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Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

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When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be face…

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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

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Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

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How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

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To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

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I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an a…

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When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

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To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite…

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As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

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