The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
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I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.Angela Carter
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers.... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation
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There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
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