Famous Quotes - Tags - Feminist Writer

  • A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman’s neck: it endears her to the men who want... More
  • A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. More
  • A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern... More
  • A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. More
  • Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the... More
  • As long as she is young and personable, every woman may cherish the dream that she may leap up... More
  • Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the... More
  • Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as... More
  • Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is... More
  • Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it... More
  • English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. More
  • Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he... More
  • Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. More
  • Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband’s often-told jokes she betrays him. The... More
  • For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us... More
  • For women ... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of... More
  • Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. More
  • Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on... More
  • Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would... More
  • However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in... More
  • Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is... More
  • I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. More
  • If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity... More
  • If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no... More
  • If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your menstrual... More
  • Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and... More
  • Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine... More
  • It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for... More
  • It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to... More
  • It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground... More
  • I’ve finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with... More
  • Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity,... More
  • Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has... More
  • Love is the victim’s response to the rapist. More
  • Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a... More
  • No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his... More
  • Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. More
  • Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won’t be for our benefit but for the... More
  • Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of... More
  • Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future... More
  • Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. More
  • Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. More
  • Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison,... More
  • Sadism is the necessary outcome of the belief that one sex is passive and suffers sex at the... More
  • Some celebrated writers have supposed that wit and judgment were incompatible; opposite... More
  • Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. More
  • Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines,... More
  • Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were... More
  • Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body,... More
  • The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people’s reproductive behaviour,... More
  • The climacteric marks the end of apologizing. The chrysalis of conditioning has once for all to... More
  • The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage... More
  • The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are... More
  • The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which... More
  • The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. More
  • The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility... More
  • The principle of the brotherhood of man is ... narcissistic ... for the grounds for that love... More
  • The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange... More
  • The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. More
  • The suburban housewife—she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was... More
  • The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle.... More
  • The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. More
  • There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They... More
  • This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to... More
  • We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population... More
  • What had really caused the women’s movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn... More
  • What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the... More
  • Where else in the world is a generous man defined as one who would give you his arsehole and shit... More
  • Woman ... cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear... More
  • Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men;... More
  • Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. More
  • Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the... More
  • Women’s liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary... More
  • Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she... More

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