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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. — Victoria Woodhull
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the… — Victoria Woodhull
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown… — Gloria Steinem
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women. — Katha Pollitt
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women. — Ti-Grace Atkinson
The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further… — Kate Millett
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. — Judith Sargent Murray
[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior. — Crystal Eastman
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as… — Catharine MacKinnon
The word 'feminist' is a word that discriminates, and I'm not into that. I don't think there has to be a separation in life in… — Shailene Woodley
People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle… — Joss Whedon
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. — Homer
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women… — Germaine Greer
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. — Wyndham Lewis
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of… — Camille Paglia
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad… — Florence King
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because… — Betty Buckley
If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. — Betty Buckley
But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind… — Barbara Kruger
The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical… — Cindy Sherman
I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing… — Cindy Sherman

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