Aspect Quote by Robin Morgan

The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth,…

— Andrea Dworkin

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very…

— Grace Paley

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

— Zainab Salbi

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“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

“Women are often convinced by many different social norms, expectations, and incentives to live within constraints that similarly placed (in terms of race, class,…

— Cudd/Holmstrom

“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

Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

— Sheila Rowbotham

What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the…

— Camille Paglia

Women can better perceive injustice.

— Marine Le Pen

“Much of the prejudice against women is stored at an unconscious level. Many of those with the most punishing attitudes towards passionate women -and…

— Marianne Williamson