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When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to… — Fay Weldon
To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of… — Mary Ann Glendon
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants… — Betty Rollin
To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. — Lily Tomlin
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage… — Virginia Woolf
When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am… — Brittney Griner
Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But… — Dora Russell
I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But… — Robin Morgan
The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist — Ti-Grace Atkinson
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. — Catharine MacKinnon
And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference. — Susan Griffin
All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All… — Marilyn French
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past,… — Andrea Dworkin
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.… — Camille Paglia
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as… — Andrea Dworkin
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk so openly about… — Paulo Coelho
Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don't see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is first and foremost… — Paulo Coelho
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and… — Camille Paglia
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. — Unknown Author
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. — Sheila Rowbotham
You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world. — Helene D. Gayle
Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need… — Judith Levine
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood… — Teresa de Lauretis
Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that… — Julie Bindel
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine Dorries.… — Julie Bindel

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