Gender Quote by Sheila Jeffreys

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

“Both porn and religion distort a person’s perspectives on women.”

— Jesse Dangerously

“The hierarchy is disturbing. Women being enslaved to men. Women have fought against such treatment for hundreds of years and yet here—" "Yet here…

— Tiffany Reisz

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of…

— Anna Julia Cooper

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 wrote it because I am done living in a world where women are lied to about their bodies; where women are objects of…

— Emily Nagoski

“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

“It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity -- a stunting…

— Betty Friedan

Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own…

— Marielle Heller

The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love,…

— Catharine Beecher

“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

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real…

— Audre Lorde