Causes Quote by Monique Wittig

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not…

— Monique Wittig

“Sexism is a combination of prejudice against persons based on their gender, combined with the privilege and power required to cause harm.”

— Bailey Poland

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in…

— Neil Tennant

The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the…

— Friedrich Engels

“As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which “sexed nature” or…

— Judith Butler

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

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan

..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for…

— Bell Hooks

“Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems…

— Susan Shaw

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though…

— Andrea Dworkin