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Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of…
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of…
Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating…
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation…
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and…
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free…
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women…
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality…

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the… — Seneca the Younger
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of… — Michel de Montaigne
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on… — George Bernard Shaw
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Unknown Author
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting… — Malcolm Bradbury
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens. — Sheila Jeffreys
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,… — Esther Vilar
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on… — Earl Warren
I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms. — Ryan McGinley
Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or… — Henry George
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison

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