“A quel tempo aveva i capelli grigi. Non se li tingeva. Perché fingere, diceva, che bisogno ne ho? Non voglio un uomo. A che servono tranne che per quei dieci secondi che corrispondono a mezzo figlio? Un uomo è semplicemente la strategia di una donna per fare altre donne.”
Source: Il racconto dell'Ancella
“This kind of caring for oneself is not about caring for one’s own happiness. It is about finding ways to exist in a world that makes it difficult to exist. This is why, this is how: those who do not have to struggle for their own survival can very easily and rather quickly dismiss those who attend to their own survival as being self-indulgent. They do not need to attend to themselves; the world does it for them.”
Source: Living a Feminist Life
“If you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you are going to be punished no matter what for the sin of being female.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“The spaces we refer to as public are assumed to be male, and for centuries men have excluded women from the public where all the key decisions relating to power are deliberated and implemented.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“Patriarchy has effectively used exclusion as a central tenet of its ideological claims to hegemony in all our societies, where one is looking at notions of identity, of rights and privilege, of access and inclusion into institutions and sites of power.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“When women occupy public spaces as persons who understand that for millennia they have been denied their inalienable rights as human beings, they begin to demand the restitution of those rights through the creation of structures within which they situate financial, technical and intellectual resources.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“What is "male privilege," and why is it important to name the elephant in the living room? My friend Patricia Monaghan (of blessed memory) describes it this way: "For those who have male privilege, it's like a person wearing strong perfume. Rarely can the wearer smell it, but those around begin to leave the room.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“Patriarchy denies reality, that Woman is primary for she creates man.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“We are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn. And we are not putting up with it anymore.”
Source: The Burning
“Oh God, King of the universe, thank you for not creating me a man.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale