Religion Quote by Monica Sjöö

“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

“In the following pages, we’ll explain how seismic cultural shifts that began about ten thousand years ago rendered the true story of human sexuality…

— Christopher Ryan

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated…

— Taslima Nasrin

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body…

— Whitney Chadwick

“This is a subject I've given a lot of thought to, and I think I have the answer. I've tried to encompass in my…

— Fran Ross

The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and…

— Valie Export

“What is the essence of human sexuality and how did it get to be that way? In the following pages, we’ll explain how seismic…

— Christopher Ryan

“What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick, to the…

— Tiqqun

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than…

— Camille Paglia

“We can hope to grasp the significance of sexuality only by studying it in its concrete manifestations; and then perhaps the meaning of the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the…

— Andrea Dworkin

“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers…

— Abhijit Naskar