In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men. — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“When a woman fears the punishment that comes from calling herself a feminist, I ask: Will you be so unpunished if you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The common perception is that man hating is solely a radical feminist practice. In my essay, I maintain that is neither radical… — Coleen Kearon Copy Share Image
“The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Women hating men is not an aberrant or unexpected response, but rather natural response to being controlled, and to being viewed as… — Coleen Kearon Copy Share Image
At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras,… — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The radical feminists I have worked with do not limit their critique to patriarchy. To emphasize the radical potential of radical feminism:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy is itself the prevailing religion of the entire planet, and its essential message is necrophilia. All of the so-called religions legitimating… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Practically every radical cause in America today shows the influence of this postmodernist assault. From radical feminism to racial and sexual politics,… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that 'the personal is political'. This phrase has two interrelated meanings.… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Now I look at artificial boundaries—lines that can stop no current of air or drought or polluted river—and mourn the violence lavished… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
