I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
“Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship,… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment,… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The kind of emancipation that is being put forward today in technologically based cultures is crying out for women at last to… — Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“So if the traditions and culture of the Eastern community are blindly compelled to hurt a woman’s dignity, insult and degrade her… — Huda Sharawi Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“In 1969, University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon wrote that “the institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image