Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
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The word β€˜sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root β€˜es-,’ meaning β€˜to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, β€˜to be’ in the fullest sense is β€˜to sin'.
Tags: sin, religion, patriarchy, life, feminism, etymology, christianity, carpe-diem
Radical feminism is still threatening.
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I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.
Tags: men, time, sexy, women
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
Tags: religious, substitute, experience, work
I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.
Tags: because, out, study, know
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