Tag: feminism

L. O. {Lesbos} V. E.

“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”

— Sappho

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Sapho, by Gleyre | Lesbos today | Sapho, by Mengin
— “Do You Get Me?”

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Photography by Rena Effendi (2016–17)
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In this photo by Petros Giannakouris, 17-year-old Soumaya is holding her baby at a UNCHR refugee camp in Greece.
“may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend”

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.”

— Sappho

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— “You Do Get Me, Don’t Ya.”

“I am not free while…

…any woman is unfree…

…even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

— Audre Lorde

Equal
Equal
Are
Are
We
We

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

— Irina Dunn

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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

— Margaret Atwood

We are slaves to money...
We are slaves to money…
Then...
Then…
We die.
We die.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

— Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882 and, from 1915, when she published her first novel, she produced an astounding output of essays, fiction, letters and literary criticism until her untimely death…

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
…Unfortunately Virginia Woolf suffered a series of mental breakdowns and, in 1941, she committed suicide.

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
— Jay, you are my ev-re-thing