Cost Quote by Adrienne Rich

“The hierarchy is disturbing. Women being enslaved to men. Women have fought against such treatment for hundreds of years and yet here—" "Yet here…

— Tiffany Reisz

There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just…

— Amber Heard

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through…

— Cheryl Clarke

Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use…

— Catharine MacKinnon

People are threatened by female sexuality.

— Stacy Martin

Heterosexuality as we know it is so plain boring, dumb, dull and artificial, it has to be imposed upon people, otherwise they don't take…

— Virginie Despentes

“In societies where women's rights are no longer openly, blatantly denied - as they are not in most of the Western world - women…

— Carina Chocano

“If female sexuality is muted compared to that of men, then why must men the world over go to extreme lengths to control and…

— Barbara Smuts

There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think…

— Marilyn Frye

There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in…

— Dacia Maraini

“The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of…

— Adrienne Rich

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or…

— Adrienne Rich