{"quotes":[{"text":"That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule.","author":"Jonathan Odell","tags":["feminism","reproductive-rights","the-healing","vagina"],"id":27418,"author_id":"Jonathan+Odell"},{"text":"His face clouded over when Calvin and Peachy tried to explain women. Peachy pressed on bravely. “Now, the purpose of the vagina,” he was saying. He stopped and said to Calvin, “Why can’t we just buy him a book?","author":"David Pratt","tags":["book","vagina"],"id":43590,"author_id":"David+Pratt"},{"text":"God gave man the strength to conquer the world, but God gave woman a vagina to conquer man.","author":"Treasure Blue","tags":["conquer","god","man","strength","vagina","woman","world"],"id":65839,"author_id":"Treasure+Blue"},{"text":"I always hoped I’d be the one to tame the bad boy. It’s a stupid girly thing, the universal belief in vagina magic where men change after having some.","author":"Milana Jacks","tags":["bad-boys","romance-novels","vagina"],"id":68617,"author_id":"Milana+Jacks"},{"text":"The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.","author":"Germaine Greer","tags":["feminism","feminist","feminist","germaine-greer","kyriarchy","patriarchy","philosophy","second-wave-feminism","the-female-eunuch","vagina","women-s-history","women-s-studies"],"id":126052,"author_id":"Germaine+Greer"},{"text":"I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?).","author":"Gloria Steinem","tags":["body","body-acceptance","body-appreciation","clitoris","female","male","men","pleasure","vagina","women"],"id":148230,"author_id":"Gloria+Steinem"},{"text":"No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.","author":"Gloria Steinem","tags":["female","male","men","patriarchy","religion","sin","vagina","women"],"id":220346,"author_id":"Gloria+Steinem"},{"text":"The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.","author":"Eve Ensler","tags":["carnal","clitoris","pleasure","vagina"],"id":230558,"author_id":"Eve+Ensler"},{"text":"If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way.","author":"Eve Ensler","tags":["feminism","monologues","vagina"],"id":239531,"author_id":"Eve+Ensler"},{"text":"The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber.","author":"Eve Ensler","tags":["birth","heart","life","vagina","women"],"id":287063,"author_id":"Eve+Ensler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}