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Members of the German anti-fascist organization “White Rose” – 22-year-old student at the Faculty of Philosophy Sophie Scholl (center), her brother, 24-year-old medical student, Hans Scholl (left) and 23-year-old medical student Christoph Probst. February 18, 1943 in Munich arrested on charges of treason. 4 days later executed by the guillotine. This photograph – one of the most famous photographs of German anti-fascists.

And yet does it not all come again to the fact that it is a man’s world? For if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still aesthetically turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithful to him, to save him from his own lust. But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of soul, body, and pride of man? Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to spout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars – to be a part of a scene, anonomous, listening, recording – all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via rosemarygeorge)