Feminism (Quotations)

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Assange, Julian

• "Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism."

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

• "The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist."
• "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."

B

Badinter, Élisabeth

• "" ()

Beauvoir, Simone de

• "No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one." - "Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma", Saturday Review, June 14, 1975.
• "A parasite sucking out the living strength of another organism...the [housewife's] labor does not even tend toward the creation of anything durable.... [W]oman's work within the home [is] not directly useful to society, produces nothing. [The housewife] is subordinate, secondary, parasitic. It is for their common welfare that the situation must be altered by prohibiting marriage as a 'career' for woman."

Brownmiller, Susan

• "Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear."

C

Comins, Catherine

• "Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."

Cronin, Sheila

• "Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."

D

Daly, Mary

• "If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males."

Dworkin, Andrea

• "Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice."
• "Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies."
• "In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice."
• Q: "People think you are very hostile to men." A: "I am."
• "Men use the night to erase us."
• "The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality."
• "Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance."
• "I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."

F

Foster, Jodie

• "Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive ... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo."

French, Marilyn

• "Männer sind Nazis durch und durch; ihr Tod ist also historisch gerechtfertigt."
• "My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don´t even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter."
  Übersetzung: "Meine Gefühle den Männern gegenüber sind das Ergebnis meiner Erfahrung. Ich empfinde wenig Sympathie für sie. Wie ein Jude, der gerade aus Dachau entlassen worden ist, sehe ich, wie der hübsche junge Nazisoldat sich windend, mit einer Kugel im Bauch, zu Boden fällt, und ich sehe nur kurz hin und gehe weiter. Ich brauche nicht einmal mit den Schultern zu zucken: Es berührt mich einfach nicht." - "The Woman's Room"
• "As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some men do suffices to threaten all women. He can beat or kill the woman he claims to love; he can rape women ... he can sexually molest his daughters ... THE VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN THE WORLD DO ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE." - The War Against Women, p. 182 (her emphasis)
• "All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women ... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey." - The War Against Women, p. 186
• "The media treat male assaults on women like rape, beating, and murder of wives and female lovers, or male incest with children, as individual aberrations ... obscuring the fact that all male violence toward women is part of a concerted campaign." - The War Against Women, p. 21

In fiction authored by Marilyn French

• "My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter." - The Women's Room
• "All men are rapists and that's all they are." - The character Mia in her novel The Women's Room, p. 462,

G

Green, Maureen

• "" ()

Greer, Germaine

• "Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."

J

Jeffrys, Sheila

• "When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression."

Jordan, Barbara

• ""I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it."

K

Kohn, Sally

• "All heterosexual white males need to be gone from this planet. Their dangerous behavior and rhetoric has no place in America or in the world."

Koss, Mary

• "If you look at this group of men who identify themselves as rape victims, as raped by women, you’ll find that their shame is not similar to women, their level of injury is not similar to women, and their penetration experience is not similar to what women are reporting."
• "Although consideration of male victims is within the scope of the legal statutes, it is important to restrict the term rape to instances where male victims were penetrated by offenders. It is inappropriate to consider as a rape victim a man who engages in unwanted sexual intercourse with a woman."

M

MacKinnon, Catharine

• "Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated."
• "All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."
• "You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs."
• "In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
• "Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism."

Miller Gearhart, Sally

• "The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race."

Millett, Kate

• "As the largest alienated element in our society, and because of their number, women might come to play a leadership part in social revolution, quite unknown before in history." - Sexual Politics, 1970, p. 363

Moran, Caitlin

• "Because if I had one piece of advice for young girls, and women, it would be this: girls, don’t read any books by men. Don’t read them. Stay away from them. Or, at least, don’t read them until you’re older, and fully-formed, and battle-ready, and are able to counter someone being rude to you, in conversation, not with silent embarrassment, or internalised, mute fury, but a calm, “Fuck you very much, and goodbye.”

Because if there’s one thing that has made me, perhaps, happier in myself, and more confident about writing the truth, and less apt to run myself down for my appearance, weight, loudness and unusualness than many, many other women, it’s that I never read books by men when I was younger."

Morgan, Robin (Ms. Magazine Editor)

• "I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
• "I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero-sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary-vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the sh*twork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do."
• "We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."
• "I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."

S

Solanas, Valerie

• "Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex."
• "To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."

Steinem, Gloria

• "Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole ... patriarch!" - radical feminist leader, editor of Ms. (Magazine)
• "By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God."

Stone, Sharon

• "The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men."

V

Valenti, Jessica

• "I bathe in male tears."

Vilar, Esther

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