“Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.” HumansMeanIdeasValuesWomenFeminismDemandProfoundRevolutionaryParenthoodBankingWomen EqualityHuman PsycheRevolutionary Ideas Author:Polly Toynbee
“Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.” MenWaySeemsAbleDesireSpaceVisionFeminismSubjectsCapableEmbraceFeministFulfillmentRevolutionaryEncountersImaginaryLinkedRespondingSubjugation Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.” HeartDoeSelfFormOrderUnderstandingBlackStruggleFeminismProjectsFemaleDeterminationRevolutionaryCollectivesSelf DeterminationVehicleDominationCritique Author:Bell Hooks
“It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.” IfsWantMomentsProblemHandsRiskFeminismFeministAriseRadicalRevolutionaryThat Moment Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.” MeanDifferentWholeLeftClassStruggleFeminismMovementExtremesRevolutionaryClass StruggleLeftists Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.” IfsGoalWifeFailingFeminismAchieveStructureRevolutionaryShakesOur SocietyCracksSplitsBedroomStatus QuoSuburbs Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.” HumansSpiritCultureFeminismHuman NatureMovementMoralityMeetingsWesternFeministTraditionalRadicalRevolutionaryDestructiveSixtyProposeRadical FeminismWestern CultureRestructuring Author:Robert Bork
“I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.” FeminismRevolutionaryNestsHornets Author:Julian Assange
“The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.” GoalFeminismDestructionNuclearTraditionalRevolutionaryUtopianNuclear FamiliesTraditional Marriage Author:Kate Millett
“Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.” StillsArtistHalfFeminismCenturyMetsEnormousResistanceRevolutionaryBeing A WomanWoman Artist Author:Jerry Saltz
“The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.” HeartPoliticalCultureStruggleFeminismCenturyLateCurrentsRevolutionaryNationalismAgendas20th Century Author:Terry Eagleton