Feminist Quote by Ti-Grace Atkinson Download Open image “I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.” — Ti-Grace Atkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminist Love Love is Persecution Phenomenon Propose Psychological Psychology Radical Radical feminist
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The purpose behind discerning the nature of love is not to satisfy ivory tower discussions or to produce fodder for academic delectation. Instead, as… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who can resist the thought that love is the ideological bone thrown to women to distract their attention from the powerlessness of their lives?” — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.” — P.N. Elrod Copy Share Image
“It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance. And yet we suffer, many of… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance.And yet, we suffer...many of us, for… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
“I was merely making more perceptible that binary rhythm which love adopts in all those who have too little confidence in themselves to believe… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers called attention… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself… — Ti-Grace Atkinson Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance. — Ti-Grace Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die. — Ti-Grace Atkinson Copy Share Image
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth. — Ti-Grace Atkinson Copy Share Image
“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
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy 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… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. — Jessica Valenti 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
“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
“She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.” — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image