Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as crucial to next-stage evolution as ending race slavery was to the last stage. It's a noble fight, not least because the various fundamentalisms threatening Western democracy are united in their urgent need to re-cage women's sexuality.
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Related The ending was sad enough, never mind for it to come with allegations that he has thrown a fight as ... BILLY GRAHAM Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, we... JEANNE PHILLIPS Slavery is also as ancient as war, and was as human nature. VOLTAIRE When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talke... PAUL MOONEY Shakespeare's heroines are generally quite bold. His women were women of character ? that would appe... LYNNE BURROUGHS The way the play was written originally is that in the end Henry Higgins and Eliza separate because ... ANDY FORD Ending feudalism, ending slavery, enacting labor laws, winning universal suffrage, ending Jim Crow l... MICHAEL ALBERT The exodus was not a movement from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to covenant. Redemption was ... CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their '... GREG GRANDIN Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th... JOYCE CAROL OATES One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He w... DAVE EGGERS I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because... SARAH MCLACHLAN The Confederate flag was the flag of the American South during the civil war. It was the flag of peo... JOHN NIVEN Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable,... DANA PERINO Our performance on the football field was mixed [last season]. The team again participated in the Ch... BRIAN QUINN Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was ex... JENNIFER CHIAVERINI Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ... GEORGES PEREC It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States h... C. L. R. JAMES Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman... D. A. PENNEBAKER If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, wom... MARY GRIFFITH The last decade was dominated by Bill Owens. The Owens era is ending because of term limits. FLOYD CIRULI He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and par... DAVE EGGERS My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed... JACK KEVORKIAN The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was elimina... MICHAEL MOORE We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in th... STEVE KING An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led u... SARAH DESSEN At this stage of the game it's an absolute blowout, partly because of the terrorist threats to the s... MAURICE CARROLL Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American his... CARL BERNSTEIN This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to igno... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you c... SATYAJIT RAY Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves th... ALFRED MARSHALL The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a... BERNIE SANDERS And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spen... MARTIN JACQUES The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the f... PATTI SMITH But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deep... JOHN T. FLYNN Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to ... ANDREW ASHLING I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I... TIM ROTH There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, ... EDWARD BALL When that verdict occurred, he was devoured by it politically. He saw himself as a political comer a... JEFF BROWN I know what liberty is because I know what slavery was. ELIZABETH KECKLEY The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER It was not written as a personal therapy. We are professionals. We have a cause and a point of view ... DANIEL COHEN It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of it... LYSANDER SPOONER Without a sharp turnaround toward democracy and equality in the United States, Europe will be virtua... STEVE BROUWER Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was be... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role w... CONRAD VEIDT God bless Brad Jones, he feels about as badly as he can feel. The first 30 days I represented him, I... CARL CORNWELL This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes y... TERRY PRATCHETT I was drawn to vaginas because of my own personal history, because of sexuality, because women's emp... EVE ENSLER His time was almost up. He was in his last days. I have always felt bad for the animal shelter becau... ERIN BENNETT I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I ... PHILLIPA SOO I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect wit... ERNEST CLINE It was nothing life threatening but it was enough to put him out of the Breeders' Cup. We are all de... HARRY HERBERT I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its streng... JOHN F. KENNEDY Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because ... AMIT ABRAHAM In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go befo... ROSE TREMAIN New Jersey was the last (northern) state to abolish slavery, and even if we are the last state to ab... MARIE TASY Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United Stat... VIRGINIA FOXX In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a ... BILLY CRYSTAL Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and th... JAMIE FOXX We have identified some bowlers, but at this stage we haven't been able to use them for various reas... GREG CHAPPELL Lancelot tried to have a Word. His Word was valuable to him not only because he was good, but also b... T.H. WHITE An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people. DASHANNE STOKES I was disappointed over my dismissal, given that it was at a crucial stage of the game and I had wor... RICKY PONTING My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs... JOSEPHINE BAKER [Muhammad's] greatest contribution to African Americans was in restoring their sense of pride and of... KARL EVANZZ He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; b... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Once upon a time there was an empress, trapped as a ghost in the ruins of a jewelled palace, cursed ... KIRSTY LOGAN I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Sc... BRETT ELDREDGE The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. D... JOHN HERSEY Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery i... EDWARD BALL ...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist... SUSAN J. DOUGLAS It was so severe that at one stage Steve had put on his parachute because he was convinced the plane... JACKIE MCQUILLAN It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explo... ALDIS HODGE Not exactly a fairy-tale ending, was it? But it was close. BILL MOTT Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just ... MANIKA You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi... JOHN GREEN But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it w... BOB EDWARDS Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a... SAM KEAN It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like ... SARAH DESSEN By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest... STEVEN A. COULTER If Marx had no time for the state, it was partly because he viewed it as a kind of alienated power. ... TERRY EAGLETON In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to... SUE MONK KIDD Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery int... JAMAICA KINCAID [Colonization] was supposed to be sort of a remedy for slavery and racial inequality in the country, CLAUDE CLEGG There is an urgent need for improved therapies for weight loss assistance in the United States. The ... JUDY CAMERON I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commi... SEAMUS DEVER It was great to be in a race where the world record was set. We've achieved so much this week and it... CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it com... ALDIS HODGE The gender women and their title "Wife" and their Autocratic partner "Husband" is the greatest examp... DEVASKI Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a fo... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a... MICHAEL BIEHN The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970... BRITT EKLAND It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to... CHRISTINA WESTOVER I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest... DON RICKLES The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Jose... MEIR SOLOVEICHIK We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing ... BERNIE SANDERS Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of... HERBERT CROLY
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other... ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you. ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless. ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. ELIZABETH BOWEN A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. ELIZABETH GASKELL Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what... ELIZABETH HELLER We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of ti... ELIZABETH DREW Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but... ELIZABETH GASKELL Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting. ELIZABETH BOWEN Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w... ELIZABETH STONE Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. ELIZABETH BOWEN Don ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding-place: I ask no other sunshine than The sunshin... ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. ELIZABETH FULLER The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. ELIZABETH JANEWAY I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. ELIZABETH BOWEN