Sonia Sanchez, Poem
The system gives you just enough to make you think that you see change. They will sing you right to sleep, then they'll screw you just the same.
Ani DiFranco, Waiting Song (1992)
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1992,
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These things we do to keep the flame burnin and write our fires in the sky. Another day to see the wheel turnin, another avenue to try.
Bonnie Raitt/Paul Brady, Luck of the Draw (1991)
Somewhere out there are millions just like me homesick for Eden heartsick at the memory.
Janis Ian, Searching For America (1997)
I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give, give back as much as I need.
Indigo Girls, Blood And Fire (1989)
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1989,
amy ray,
ausgleich,
emily saliers,
geben + nehmen,
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Nichts ist weniger natürlich, als sich als Frau zu kleiden.
Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
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1949,
frauen,
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kleider,
natürlichkeit,
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Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
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ambition,
erfolg,
glück,
motivation,
zora neale hurston
To write. An act which will not only 'realize' the decensored relation of woman to her sexuality, to her womanly being, giving her access to her native strength; it will give her back her goods, her pleasures, her organs, her immense bodily territories which have been kept untder seal.
Hélène Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975)
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1975,
feminismus,
frauen,
helene cixous,
körper,
selbstbestimmung
Home. You can move away from it, but you never leave it. Not as long as it holds something to be missed.
Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1988)
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1988,
gloria naylor,
heimat,
mama day,
schriftstellerin,
sehnsucht,
zuhause
It is decided that the nature of woman is passive, that she is a vessel waiting to be filled.
Susan Griffin, Woman And Nature (1979)
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1979,
feminismus,
frauen,
patriarchat,
susan griffin
"Yes, " she said. "The years that are gone seem like dreams - if one might go on sleeping and dreaming - but to wake up and find - oh! well, perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."
Edna Pontellier, in: Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
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1899,
erwachen,
feminismus,
kate chopin,
leiden
Zuhause: Wo die Revolution beginnt.
Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa
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cherrie moraga,
feminismus,
gloria anzaldua,
keimzelle,
revolution,
zuhause
Lebenskunst ist die Kunst des richtigen Weglassens.
Coco Chanel
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coco chanel,
kunst,
leben,
lebensphilosophie
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