Quote by Anne Carson

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will…

— Michel Foucault

Power tends to get confused with repression.

— Olivia Wilde

“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens…

— Salman Rushdie

“The question I would like to pose is not, Why are we repressed? but rather, Why do we say, with so much passion and…

— Michel Foucault

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

— Frederick Lenz

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

“There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems…

— Susan Shaw

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most…

— Kate Millett

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the authoritarian family…

— Wilhelm Reich

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being.…

— Harry Belafonte

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

— Herbert Marcuse