feminism

 

• „I’m just a person trapped inside a woman’s body”. ~Elaine Boosle
• „There is more difference within the sexes than between them”. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son
• „Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly”. ~Sally Kempton
• „Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself”. ~Robert Ingersoll
• „The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive”. ~Betty Friedan
• „I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist”. ~Sally Kempton
• „Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths”. ~Lois Wyse
• „I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves”. ~Mary Wollstonecraft
• „Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice”. – Robin Morgan, Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape, 1974, The Word of a Woman (1993)
• „Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”” ~Clare Boothe Luce
• „A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place”. ~Michelle Le Doeuff  
• „Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness”. ~ Erica Jong
• „No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman”. ~ Frank O’Connor
  
• „When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband”. ~ Shana Alexander
• „Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence”. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
• „Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating”. Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

Marguerite Yourcenar: “La condition féminine”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0N3EofaqkM