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21 " La visión estereotipada de las feministas es la de mujeres desprovistas de humor y libido. Pero yo no soy ninguna de las dos cosas, y tampoco lo es ninguna de mis amigas feministas. Sólo carecemos de humor y libido cuando nos dicen que alegremos esa cara o que tengamos relaciones sexuales con alguien en contra de nuestra voluntad. "
― , A Book for Her
22 " Como dijo Mary Wollstonecraft, «adoctrinadas desde la niñez para creer que la belleza es el cetro de la mujer, el espíritu queda sometido al cuerpo, encerrado en una jaula de oro, y sólo parece servir para adornar su cárcel». Y así ha sido siempre. "
23 " Otherwise we’ll end up like the boy who cried Virginia Woolf. You know – Richard Burton. "
24 " Just to be clear, the man from the art department wasn’t boasting about publishing Hitler’s tome. He didn’t say, ‘We’ve got a brilliantly eclectic list here at Random House, Bridget, so you’re in good company. We’ve got Harper Lee, Katie Price, Hitler, you. So I thought, for the front cover, we could have you sitting on planet Venus, looking over at planet Mars with a sort of confused look on your face, like on all those other books by women now. We just need to let the readers know that this book is a funny, light-hearted look at feminism, and how you approach feminism and violations of human rights in your stand-up, Bridget. We need to reassure them it’s not going to be full of photographs of men being horrifically tortured and suffocated with their own cocks while loads of feminists stand around laughing, drinking yards of ale, welding metals and thermoplastics and playing darts with the donated embalmed penes of dead male feminists. Many of our readers won’t want to read a book like that. We are a commercial publishing house. "