Feminism Quote by Crystal Eastman Download Open image “[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.” — Crystal Eastman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Feminist Inferiors Intercourse Mean Psychology Remains
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender,… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The original restrictive meaning of sexual aberration which derives satisfaction from a passive relation to the partner has been retained. Masochism, however, has come… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Eroticism evokes a sense of desire ; vulgarity simply destroys the human value of any sexual act -_- — Shubhi Sharma Copy Share Image
When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppres — Sheila Jeffrys Copy Share Image
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with what other… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“This story is not at all an uncommon one in tech circles, including gaming. The popular notion is that women who get ahead must… — Bailey Poland Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image