History Quote by Inga Muscio

“We - society- inflict all sorts of injuries on people and then blame them for having scars. We sexualize and exploit and condemn them…

— Jonathan Maberry

“the education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it can be…

— Leo Tolstoy

“This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with…

— Wally Lamb

“of other women. Oppression is most powerful when internalized and self-imposed. Self-oppression (knowing your “place”) becomes a passport to acceptance by the dominant group.…

— Frank Schaeffer

“I am a scholar and a pupil who has been lulled to sleep by the meagre fire of a mind too humble. I have…

— Laura Cereta

“end up defending cultures that involve corruption, slavery and the submission of women and the weaker members of society. I”

— Fernando Ballano Gonzalo

“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Almost none of us know how to escape the trap of self-punishment. It has sinisterly woven itself into the fibers of American femininity.”

— Stefani Ruper

“Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their body's desires,…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”

— Randy Wayne White