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“To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism.”
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
“We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42...”
“I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.”
“And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.”
“Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is ...”
“In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear hard. She may feel her early conditioning tugging her in the direction of surr...”
“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 a...”
“...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”
“Maybe it was only goblin women who were restless and wanted to see the world. She didn't know.”
“Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?”
“If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.”
“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is permeated by the linguistic and perceptual values devel...”
“Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosophers stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery woul...”
“Women, even the most oppressed among us, do exercise power. These powers can be used to advance feminist struggle. Forms of power held by exploited and oppressed groups are described in Elizabeth J...”
“With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. Its OK to fuck around if youre a feminist but its also not OK to fuck around because most guys arent feminists and wont respect y...”
“Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women understand capitalismhow it works as a syste...”
“Be militant in your own way! Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property...do so. And my last word is to the Government: I ...”
“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of human cruelty - the realm of history - it is utterly abstract. The central question is: ...”
“...the end goal of feminist revolution must be...not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter cultur...”
