Women, it is said, possess corresponding power. Through consciousness-raising, women found that women’s so-called power was the other side of female powerlessness. A women’s supposed power to deny sex is the underside of her actual...

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

The real desire [of feminism] is to break away from rationalism, androcentrisim and all forms of philosophy and practices that discriminate against women. The objective is to recover the use of senses, desire, taste, pleasure,...

Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband’s favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest...

In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by referring to the primary, genetic difference between the sexes. But of forty-eight chromosomes...

What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House and is again in a position to rent the Lincoln Bedroom to campaign...

He – and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that’s when we can start talking about equal rights.

(…) Qual sera o destino de Helène? O meu, certamente. Que meios têm as mães de assegurar às suas filhas que o homem ao qual elas serão entregues será o esposo de seus corações? As...

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women’s wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone...

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us...

And that’s the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don’t want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving...

And those women were sneaky. They understood that including fantastical elements in their tales- golden eggs, signing harps, talking frogs- worked to mask a deeper purpose….it made the stories look on the surface like ‘a...

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find ’em, kill ’em.

Theologians and other clerks, You won’t understand this book, — However bright your wits — If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They...

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland

El feminismo es la linterna que muestras las sombras de todas las grandes ideas gestadas y desarrolladas sin las mujeres y en ocasiones a costa de ellas: democracia, desarrollo económico, bienestar, justicia, familia, religión…Las feministas...

(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)

Three out of ten women in the United States have an abortion by the time they are forty-five years old. And women who need abortions get abortions, whether or not the procedure is legal or...

I only knew to treat the male asshole as if it had a grenade buried inside of it that could ignite a deadly explosion of anger, trauma, and sexual confusion.

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women...

You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers.

Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of “the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and culturally.” Although _globalization from below_ is to counter _globalization from...

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.According to Appel, cult members develop…”an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution...

College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere between all that fear and...

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that...

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. It...

A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity of women is disadvantaged. Without the bearing of women on world...

Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me.how surprised y’all is goin’ tuh be if you ever find out you don’t know half as much ’bout us...

I am a men’s liberationist (or “masculist”) when men’s liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes....

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of men and women forever. For we...

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

Yes, that’s what my mother used to do.” It went on to talk about how a woman could climb Everest, teach schoolchildren in Cambodia and win the Booker Prize but some people would still think...

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

I doubt if it is possible tofeel real affection for anybody who is in every respect one’s inferior.” 1 There are so many dirty names for her that one rarelylearns them all, even in one’s...

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy...

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that “political correctness” has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.

So the fact tht anyone would ever suggest that Arab women are dominated and demeaned is really quite ludicrous. In this part of the world, She’s just Not That Into Him. We’re the ones who...

Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is not the whole world. Masculine ideologies are the creation of masculine subjectivity; they are neither...

Love is not getting high on fantasies of romance, the perfect lover, absolute happiness and sexual ecstasy. Love is based on a two way communication and respect, and that only exists between equals.

One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job’s sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is...