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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."

--Marlo Thomas
 

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. " - Helen Keller
 

ARGHHHH! WAKE THE HELL UP!

Women who deny the existence and effects of sexism just because they themselves have succeeded in their goals. You don't live in a vacuum, okay? Look around! I'm glad you got where you are, but not everyone is as fortunate. These are the same women who the media love to hear from because who better to debunk the existence of sexism than a woman? Just because it's coming out of a female mouth doesn't mean it should be given special attention. It (may just mean that) the only way these women can think of to succeed in this world is to associate completely with men and their power (only further proof that there is still a problem).

"There is a tendency... today to explain human behavior, to remove purpose - motive - from serious consideration. We tend to accept the notion that mechanical, not purposive, causation accounts for the things people do. Joe Sinister is a criminal because his parents beat him or because of a chemical imbalance in his brain or because of a genetic disorder that removed the function we call conscience... These explanations of human behavior may be accurate... but the issue of accuracy is, in fact, quite irrelevant to human societies. A human community that uses mechanical causation to account for human behavior cannot survive, because it cannot hold its members accountable for their behavior. That is, no matter how you account for the origin of a human behavior, a community must continue to judge the perpetrator on the basis of his intent, as near as that intent can be understood (or guessed, or assumed). That is why parents inevitably ask their children the unanswerable question: Why did you do that? Terrible as that question is, it at least puts the responsibility back on the child's head and forces the child to ask himself the question that society absolutely requires him to answer: Why do I do the things I do? And how, by changing my motives, can I change my behavior?... We must believe in motives for human behavior, or we cannot maintain community life."

-- Orson Scott Card, from the Introduction to "Cruel Miracles".

 

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Disclaimer: this area intended for mature open minded adults with a sense of humor, OK? Got it, Get it, Good. (A Fan Club for women in control of their lives. "Despite the statements of some of our more Bitter Heartless Bitches, Heartless Bitches International is NOT about Man-Hating. We don't discriminate against stupidity, arrogance, irresponsibility, bloated egos, or immaturity on the basis of gender.")

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