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Colombian Marxist-Leninist guerilla women doing scientific research.

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What we can now conjecture about the way in which sexual relations will be ordered after the impending overthrow of capitalist production is mainly of a negative character, limited for the most part to what will disappear. But what will there be new? That will be answered when a new generation has grown up: a generation of men who never in their lives have known what it is to buy a woman's surrender with money or any other social instrument of power; a generation of women who have never known what it is to give themselves to a man from any other considerations than real love or to refuse to give themselves to their lover from fear of the economic consequences. When these people are in the world, they will care precious little what anybody today thinks they ought to do; they will make their own practice and their corresponding public opinion about the practice of each individual - and that will be the end of it.

Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, p. 114

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“What is the essence of patriarchy? Men defining our reality. Men rape us. They video tape it, they photograph it, they pay for it. They then have the privilege to call it porn, prostitution and photography. And in the most pernicious cases; marriage.”

— (via liesofthepatriarchy)

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Women will never be free unless we are not any longer treated as objects, which includes sexual objects. We are human beings; we are the center of our own lives. We are not things for men to act out on.—Life and Death (1997)

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As Indian surrogate mother Salma tells researcher Amrita Pande:

“Who would choose to do this? I have had a lifetime’s worth of injections pumped into me. Some big ones in my hips hurt so much. In the beginning I had about 20–25 pills almost every day. I feel bloated all the time. But I know I have to do it for my children’s future. This is not work, this is majboori [helplessness]. Where we are now, it can’t possibly get any worse. In our village we don’t have a hut to live in or crops in our farm. This work is not ethical — it’s just something we have to do to survive. When we heard of this surrogacy business, we didn’t have any clothes to wear after the rains — just one pair that used to get wet — and our house had fallen down. What were we to do?”

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I hope Neil Gaiman burns in the pits of hell that he imagined for his characters

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“feminist class struggle” from feminism is for everybody by bell hooks

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Women will not admit how afraid they are of men. And so there’s a kind of stance of, you know, “I’m a woman, I’m free, I’m for equal rights.” But that draws a line beyond which women won’t go, because they will not face the fear that they experience.

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"Zionism = Racism" Joseph Efimovsky Soviet Union? 1972

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feminism is for everybody by bell hooks

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“My prayer for women of the 21st century: harden your hearts and learn to kill.”

— The late Andrea Dworkin (rest in power)

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There are women calling themselves feminists though they have no particular commitment to women as a group and no credible interest in sexual politics as such.—Letters from a War Zone (1988)

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Bell Hooks on Working class men

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Yaa Allah please take all misery of afghan women, multiply it by 100 and give it to Talibs.