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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 04:38 PM
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Let's look at some old time feminism. I'll start with Andrea Dworkin, who is not too far back really. I feel like adding a few quotes from Solanas, but... I won't.

I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce
During Which There Is No Rape
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIIIE.html

For Men, Freedom of Speech;
For Women, Silence Please
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIVE.html

Terror, Torture, and Resistance
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/TerrorTortureandResistance.html

And of course, I can't leave out Soujouner Truth's, "Ain't I a Woman"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.html

A wiki page on Juana Ines de la Cruz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sor_Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz


This is a quick stop for me, please add to this, If you all would.


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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-27-09 01:43 AM
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1. Well, let me add my favorite Solanas quote
"A true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not couples -- respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally -- free spirits in free relation to each other -- and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of `society' is the family; `hippies' say the tribe; no one says the individual."

http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-27-09 11:55 AM
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2. Right on.
Here's one from her, describes a type of classism

"Appreciating is the sole diversion of the "cultivated"; passive and incompetent, lacking imagination and wit, they must try to make do with that; unable to create their own diversions, to create a little world of their own, to effect in the smallest way their environments, they must accept what's given; unable to create of relate, they spectate. Absorbing "culture" is a desperate, frantic attempt to groove in an ungroovy world, to escape the horror of a sterile, mindless, existence. "Culture" provides a sop to the egos of the incompetent, a means of rationalizing passive spectating; they can pride themselves on their ability to appreciate the "finer" things, to see a jewel where this is only a turd (they want to be admired for admiring),Lacking faith in their ability to change anything, resigned to the status quo, they have to see beauty in turds because, so far as they can see turns are all they'll ever have."
From "SCUM Manifesto" by Valarie Solanas
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