Quote by Mona Eltahawy

“I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually results from some primal male "fear of women"…

— Adrienne Rich

“It was said that its existence protected decent women. An unmarried man could go to one of these houses and evacuate the sexual energy…

— John Steinbeck

“I'd forgotten this about women: so many conditions. A man shouldn't take them to heart, and yet he does, because he doesn't want to…

— Walter Kirn

“When women act on behalf of our own sexual desires, we get blamed for being raped, for the demise of modern masculinity, for men’s…

— Jaclyn Friedman

“So selfless she was, willing to give up a little sleep for a man who was clearly determined to make sure it would be…

— Eileen Wilks

“The hopeful fancy of a man toward a woman was nothing more than a reason to intercept his lust to prove better than someone…

— Justin Donner

“She preferred her men less intense and less—well, just less. What she was looking for was control. This man wasn’t tame enough for her…

— Destiny Booze

“Modern man’s seemingly instinctive impulse to control women’s sexuality is not an intrinsic feature of human nature. It is a response to specific historical…

— Christopher Ryan

“I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins…

— Annastacia Dickerson

“there are no valid generalizations to be made about sex and women’s lives except for the central fact that we are all hungry for…

— Dorothy Allison

“Was that what they called the natural lot of women? to suffer, perhaps to share the blame, but have no share in the plan,…

— Margaret Oliphant

“He tries to remind himself that there is no reason he should feel guilty about being bound by one woman who is becoming entranced…

— Ella Frank