Caryl Rivers Quotes

• Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

  Caryl Rivers

  Mother, Jobs, Men

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• Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

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  Smell, Machines, Time Machine

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

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  Age, Done, Aging

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

  Caryl Rivers

  Freedom, Complicated, Servitude

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

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  Weed, Guilt, Age

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• [On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.

  Caryl Rivers

  Barbie Dolls, People, Trying

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• One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

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  Engineering, Political, Great Inventions

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

  Caryl Rivers

  Writing, Typewriters, Chairs

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• Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

  Caryl Rivers

  Technology, Men, Light

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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