"Why...was I born a woman, to be scorned by men in words and deeds?

--Isotta Nogarola

I've never found even a sentence that I like in all of Derrida and Foucalt.

---Camille Paglia

Inside the walls of the City of Ladies are inhabitants who are “valiant ladies of great renown”

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines

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A great mind is always universal

--- Cixous

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

-- Cixous

What? You say you can't make heads or tails of this?

No one fragment carries the totality of the message, but each text (which is in itself a whole) has a particular urgency, an individual force, a necessity, and yet each text also has a force which comes to it from all the other texts.

It's the 1980s, EVERYONE smokes -- Madonna

No smoking allowed -- Scudery

Hey de Scudery: See Rule #4

My, my, aren't you bitchy today.

--- Virginia Slims Libber Lady