Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’
-Clare Boothe Luce in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Masses of heterosexual women remain unable to let go the sexist assumption that their sexuality must always be sought after by men to have meaning and value.-bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2001)
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