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Rebecca Solnit Quotes

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The title of this short essay is “ In Praise of the Threat”, and the author is Rebecca Solnit. Haymarket Books published this short essay in 2014. The main point that Solnit was making throughout the reading was that we should all have the same rights no matter what. She goes on to say that same sex marriages don’t get the same equality and normal one man and one woman get. Solnit also explains how women had not rights and basically when women got married their husbands where the ones who told them what to do.
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“ Throughout much of its history in the west, the laws defining marriage made the husband essentially an owner and the wife a possession”. (Pg.56)
I chose this quote because this is what women had to go through back

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