If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.
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Part 6, “The Last Door” - Chapter 15 (p. 363)Joan Slonczewski
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Camille Paglia
In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
Bertrand Russell
None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
Pythagoras
Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
Camille Paglia
Oft in one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet never did I breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken.Homer
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