“And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences like rape, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, honour killing, female infanticide, banishment to menstrual huts, surrogacy tourism or death by stoning for the act of adultery. Clue: it’s not possession of a female gender identity.”
Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
“White women wanted parity with white men at any cost, including by avidly taking on the domination of Black and Brown people. As white feminists have progressed within their societies, and began to occupy increasingly important positions, they're constructing a feminism that uses the lives of Black and Brown people as arenas in which they can prove their credentials to white men.”
Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
“The questions now really are: why is pornography credible in our society? how can anyone believe it? And then: how subhuman would women have to be for the pornography to be true? To the men who use the pornography, how subhuman are women?”
Source: Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
“Strong is strong and weak is weak, and it doesn’t matter if you wear breeches or skirts if you’re the latter. Life will hammer you flat.”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world, held back from success by very basic issues that have very basic solutions.”
Source: Against White Feminism
“Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The appeals judge said that pornography did all the harm we claimed--it promoted insult and injury, rape and assault, even caused women to have lower wages--and that these effects proved its power as speech; therefore, it had to be protected.”
Source: Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
“I remember feeling very angry at Betty Friedan."
AB: What? Why?
"Well... she hated housework and wanted women to be independent, but then she's hire other women to do her housework.”
Source: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
“Daphne tried to convey to him that the likelihood of degrees for women at Oxford was a matter for satisfaction, perhaps, but hardly for excitement or ratification. Women's accomplishments in the University had long been equal, if not superior, to men's; degrees were not a privilege, they were simply what women deserved - their due, their right. She became very animated as she argued on this topic.”
Source: The Dark Tide
“...the work of sexologists and the development of sex therapy are all instances of how men’s power over women was to be supported and managed through the regulation of marital sex. Sex, in this scheme of things, was not a natural and spontaneous seeking after pleasure by men and women, but a regulatory mechanism designed and constructed to enforce male dominance and female submission.”
Source: Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution