Done Quote by Frederick Lenz

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

— Frederick Lenz

“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens…

— Salman Rushdie

“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people / get power…

— Anne Carson

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

— Frank Herbert

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

— Herbert Marcuse

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

— Boots Riley

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will…

— Michel Foucault

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time…

— Jonathan Franzen

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard…

— Francis Levy

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox