Patriarchy · Skopia

Quotes

40

That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 6.4

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Catharine MacKinnon

1983

★ 6.1

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 6.1

Historical literature · Feminist literature

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex · 1949

★ 5.5

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Books

3

Far from the Madding Crowd (Oxford World's Classics)

1874★ 7.1

Nervous Conditions

Tsitsi Dangarembga

1988★ 6.2

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi

1977★ 6.0