Marilyn Frye Quotes
- Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female…
- The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or…
- What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting…
- Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access.
- I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them:
- I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.
- I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.
- I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are…
- I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed…
- There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality…