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948591d
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He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.
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freedom-of-choice
mysogyny
womens-rights
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John Irving |
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8661f5e
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I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did it, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there had still been portable money, it would have been more difficult. It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics at the time. I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that. It was hard to believe, the entire government gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen? That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.
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disenfranchisement
coup-d-état
dystopia
womens-rights
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Margaret Atwood |
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dcd693c
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Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.
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women
mysogyny
repression
propriety
gender-equality
womens-rights
honor
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Salman Rushdie |
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817d973
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Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they'd had to share their rooms with others.
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women
womens-rights
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Orhan Pamuk |
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71c07e9
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As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press--which was one half of the pun about 'covering'--had been naive if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense?
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human-rights
women
iran
amputation
carnegie-endowment
covering-islam
iranian-kurdistan
iranian-revolution
khomeini
mohammed-reza-pahlavi
shiism
stoning
women-and-religion
women-in-iran
women-in-islam
theocracy
september-11-attacks
middle-east
edward-said
media
womens-rights
new-york
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Christopher Hitchens |
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431d394
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Two-thirty comes during Testifying. It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen and had an abortion.But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger. Her fault, her fault, her fault. We chant in unison. Who led them on? She did. She did. She did. Why did God allow such a terrible thing to happen? Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson.
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rape
god
abortion-quotes
victim-blaming
dystopia
womens-rights
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Margaret Atwood |
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15f32f0
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Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you were twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time.
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olden-days
womens-rights
gender-stereotypes
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Heather O'Neill |
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a74dee4
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Since arriving in England, Katherine had come to know a freedom she had never dreamed of in Spain, where young women were kept in seclusion and forced to live almost like cloistered nuns. They wore clothes that camouflaged their bodies and veiled their faces in public. Etiquette at the Spanish court was rigid, and even smiling was frowned upon. But in England, unmarried women enjoyed much more freedom: their gowns were designed to attract, and when they were introduced to gentlemen they kissed them full upon the lips in greeting. They sang and danced when they pleased, went out in public as the fancy took them, and laughed when they felt merry.
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tudor-england
womens-rights
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Alison Weir |
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7b60b39
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It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.
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women-in-history
womens-rights
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Karen Essex |
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e2e6353
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"When you devote your life to "finding yourself," you probably won't."
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women
feminist
womens-rights
self-improvement
self-help
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Laura Schlessinger |
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a95f0a2
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Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.
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foible
driving
mother
womens-rights
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Elizabeth Wein |