Ti-Grace Atkinson quotes
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“Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
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“I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.”
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“Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : "Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in" by Gregg Jarrett, www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.
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“I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
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“Love is the victim's response to the rapist.”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine (London), 14 Sept. 1969
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“The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
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“The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide.... I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.”
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“Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : "Death of revolutionary" by Susan Faludi, www.newyorker.com. April 15, 2013.
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“There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
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“Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.”
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : Quoted in Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-OnWoman (1972). This saying, from a 1970 speech, is usually quoted, "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."
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“The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.”
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson
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