Attention Quote by Adrienne Rich

closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those…

— Sarah Dessen

“I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually results from some primal male "fear of women"…

— Adrienne Rich

“I disavowed feminism because I had no rational understanding of the movement. I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, “You are…

— Roxane Gay

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists…

— Roxane Gay

Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They…

— Bell Hooks

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and…

— Anonymous

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

— Camille Paglia

“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy,…

— Hilton Als

“She needed this, she needed him . It all felt so right, so perfectly, and astonishingly right! Something inside her was healing and becoming…

— Erica Stevens

Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means…

— Jane McGonigal

A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say…

— Martha Beck

Feminism is not simply the idea that women can benefit from rediscovering themselves but also that our whole culture can benefit from correcting its…

— Anne Rush

“[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light…

— Terry Wolverton