Antagonism Quote by Friedrich Engels

In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as…

— Clara Zetkin

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as…

— Ariel Pink

It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that…

— Monique Wittig

“The primacy of class in politics was challenged during the 1970s and 1980s, in particular, by the rise of the 'new social movements' (including…

— Moya Lloyd

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

— Frederick Lenz

“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true that both…

— Thomas Sankara

Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of…

— Charles Brockden Brown

“The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be…

— Margaret Mead

“the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, because possession empowered them to make…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“When monogamy is found in subsistence-level cultures, Alexander calls it “ecologically imposed.” When it appears in more affluent, more stratified cultures, he calls it…

— Robert Wright

“In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the…

— Shulamith Firestone