Menstruation Quote by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

“...the end goal of feminist revolution must be...not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human…

— Shulamith Firestone

“The fact is that no language can be truly alive that is not used by women.”

— Clifford D. Conner

“Yet even when they were freed from the practical impediments imposed upon their sex, they could not write because they had no tradition to…

— Virginia Woolf

“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but…

— Marge Piercy

“It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity -- a stunting…

— Betty Friedan

“We spent ten thousand years perfecting gender, more: gendered clothing, gendered gestures, gendered language, gendered thought, a hundred thousand tools of seduction, so literally…

— Ada Palmer

“Perhaps, then, the words male and female have no general meaning.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who…

— Christine de Pizan

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas

“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed…

— Gail Collins

“Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as…

— Sue Monk Kidd