Blood Quote by Andrea Dworkin

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated…

— Taslima Nasrin

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than…

— Camille Paglia

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body…

— Whitney Chadwick

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that…

— John Stuart Mill

“This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology. For example, biologically and physiologically, women's bodies are seen as both…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“This is a subject I've given a lot of thought to, and I think I have the answer. I've tried to encompass in my…

— Fran Ross

The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and…

— Valie Export

The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth,…

— Andrea Dworkin

It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually…

— Isabella Lovin