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Katha Pollitt - Reasonable Creatures (1994)

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For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

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For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

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We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

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Funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

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We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
John James Audubon

Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt
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Born: October 14, 1949 (age 76)
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