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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
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Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
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Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
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Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
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Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
Source: Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 9.1 -
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
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