Feminist quotes

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Andrea Dworkin

I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig. [1]

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. [2]

Catherine MacKinnon

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. Catherine MacKinnon

Irina Dunn

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” 1970. This phrase is often incorrectly attributed to Gloria Steinem who popularised it. Similar phrases had currency in English before 1970 however.[3]

Jodie Foster

Ninety-five percent of women’s experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive… women didn’t go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo. Jodie Foster, quoted in The New York Times Magazine

Linda Gordon

The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. [4]

Robin Morgan

"I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." Then Editor of Ms. Magazine. [5]

Sharon Stone

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men. Sharon Stone

Sheila Cronin

Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage. While lhe leader of the feminist organization the National Organisation for Women. [6]

Sheila Jeffrys

When a woman reaches ****** with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression. Sheila Jeffrys

Susan Brownmiller

Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will p.6

Ti-Grace Atkinson

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist.

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