“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Diplomatic Immunity
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
“Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 87
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