Abandonment Quote by Andrea Dworkin

“When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and…

— Jenny Nordberg

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species,…

— James Cromwell

Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

— Henry Makow

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat…

— Christopher Lasch

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

— Gene Wolfe

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

— Jules Michelet

“Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their “masculine”…

— Kameron Hurley

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison…

— Dorothy Richardson

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle…

— Ann Oakley

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called…

— Gloria Steinem