Blood brothers Quote by bell hooks

“The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Men do oppress women. People are hurt by rigid sexist role patterns. These two realities coexist. Male oppression of women cannot be excused by…

— Bell Hooks

“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is always smiling…

— Alexander Lowen

“When women act on behalf of our own sexual desires, we get blamed for being raped, for the demise of modern masculinity, for men’s…

— Jaclyn Friedman

“Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom…

— Bell Hooks

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage…

— Bell Hooks

“A man doesn't have to be evil in order to sexually assault women,” Vanessa said. “Most rapists don't look like what we're programmed to…

— Amy Hatvany

“ALL RAPE IS AN exercise in power, but some rapists have an edge that is more than physical. They operate within an institutionalized setting…

— Susan Brownmiller

“When a girl is sexually abused, layers of secrecy and shame are added to her self-blame. The incestuous aggressor always projects the guilt for…

— Susan Forward

“A home where a woman is abused is a small-scale model of much larger oppressive systems that work in remarkably similar ways. Many of…

— Lundy Bancroft

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

— Andrea Dworkin

Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself…

— Camille Paglia