Feminism Quote by Sheila Rowbotham Download Open image “Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.” — Sheila Rowbotham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Feminist Inspirational Men Oppressed Women 's rights
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make people understand: yes, women are oppressed in 'The Handmaid's Tale.' But the men are also oppressed, too. It's just a… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority.… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. — Evelyn Cunningham Copy Share Image
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time,… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want? — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
“It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba. OSTOBA! A melltartó a barátom. A legkebelebb baratom. Mellesleg. Kivéve az a Janet Reger-féle balconette melltartót, ami pár centivel kisebb volt a kelleténél, és elszorította a vérkeringést a fejem felé. Na ja. Azt az egyet lelocsoltam… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
“In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the apples into tiny bowls, tossed in some dried fruit and sprinkled them with crumble topping. Delicious, they said that night, scraping the bowls so clean… — Helen Brown Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social action designed to contest the gains made by the women's movement and the child protection movement. In efforts to characterise social workers and therapists as hysterical zealots, 'satanic ritual abuse' was, quite literally, 'made fun of':… — Michael Salter Copy Share
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
