Best Women S Liberation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“Women have always fought not just for survival, but for the meaning of the struggle - now, they are organizing, grouping and pushing forward, not merely for new definitions, but for the right to define.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“The atmosphere of uncertainty, dissatisfaction and fear, though caused by larger crisis, becomes associated with the fact that women now have jobs or are no longer in the home as a warm and welcoming presence. Identified then with the bad feelings of change, women came to be seen as the cause of the badness. And not only to men - but to women too, these strains and dissatisfactions, and being made to take responsibility for being the cause of them, often seems too high a price to pay for their new freedoms.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“For women, the life choices (which by in large are made for them by their societies) come down to one of two evils - either the overloaded worker / wife / mother with her double burden, or the underoccupied housewife / drone with her half-life of deprivation and despair.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Now knowledge became the high road to control, and for women the pen had one major advantage over the sword; it fitted neatly into a female fist of any size, age, creed or country in the word.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“While there was work to be done, women did it, and behind the vivid foreground activities of popes and kings, wars and discoveries, tyranny and defeat, working women wove the real fabric of the kind of history that has yet to receive its due.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“The feminist rejection of the low view of women that Christianity had imposed upon so many nations had an important consequence for another of the key issues of the women's rights campaign: the demands for education. The ignorance of women had been bound in with Christian dogma - Eve's sin consisted of reaching out for the tree of knowledge, so her punishment was to be forever deprived of it. Unchallenged for centuries, this attitude produced generations of women doomed to be brought up in mental darkness and then condemned as stupid: "We are educated to the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason," complained Lady Mary Wortley Montagu bitterly in the eighteenth century.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“The rights that women had won through the long century and more of struggle were essentially rights of men. Women had had no option but to batter their way into the age-old fortress of male privilege, and storm the citadel where masculine supremacy still held out.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Women have had to learn, often painfully and always with reluctance, that their freedom will not simply come of its own accord.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.”

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Book:Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

“This pelvic preoccupation with women's rampant innards had more of a comic effect, however. Since women were seen as reproductive beings, any and every disorder they experienced was treated by treatment of the reproductive organs.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“As this shows, under the topsy-tervy conditions of revolution, women found themselves once again serving as soldiers in the front line. The last known female regular soldier had been abolished in Ireland in the seventh century A.D., but the tradition, stretching all the way back to the old matriarchies, had never entirely disappeared.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Some nouns: glass, scissors, razors, acid. Some verbs: cut, scrape, cauterize, burn. These nouns and verbs create unspeakable sentences when the object is a seven year old girl with her legs forced open. The clitoris, with it's 8000 nerve endings, is always sliced up. In the most extreme forms of female genital mutilation (FGM), the labia are cut off and the vagina is sewn shut. On her wedding night, the girl's husband will penetrate her with a knife before his penis.”

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Book:Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

“If God was male and woman was not male, then whatever God was, woman was not.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Since women are not inferior, they had to be bombarded with a massive literature of religious, social, biological and, more recently, psychological ideology to explain, insist, that women are secondary to men. And to make women believe that they are inferior what better subject for this literature of religious teaching, cautionary folk tales, jokes and customs, than the female body?”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“In terms of understanding the patriarchal struggle for control of women's bodies, the issue of blood is a major preoccupation. For not only did women bleed every month, from girlhood for all over their adult lives; every stage of their journey as women, every passage from one state to the next (menarche, defloration, childbirth) was also marked by the flow of blood with its frighteningly ambivalent signal of both life and death. The greater the danger the stronger the taboo. All these "courses" of women's lives have triggered an intricate and often savage set of myths, beliefs and customs in which the containment of cultural fears overrode any personal concern for the female who was ostensibly the cause and center of it all.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Domination was not absolute, systems were imperfect, there was still too much room to maneuver - control could not be based on an organ that men could not control. There had to be more - an idea of imminent, eternal maleness that was not physical, visible, fallible; one that was greater than all women because greater than man; whose power was omnipotent and unquestionable - one god, God the father, who man now invented in his own image.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Achieving power, man reached out for the secret of control; and as he began to look beyond the end of his penis, he found a stronger lord, a greater master - God.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“To women, therefore, the effect was broadly the same, however the message of male supremacy came packaged. All these systems - Judaism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam - were presented to them as holy, the result of divine inspiration transmitted from a male power to males empowered for this purpose, thereby enshrining maleness itself as power.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“All patriarchies, in fact, only succeeded by colonizing, indeed cannibalizing the forms, emblems and sacred objects of the Goddess they were purporting to root out. Much recent theological scholarship has been devoted to recovering what in ages past every schoolgirl knew: that the Great Goddess in her threefold incarnation (maiden, mother and wisewoman) lies behind the Christian trinity, that her immature aspect of moon maiden became the Virgin Mary, and so on.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“For whatever needs were answered by the new patriarchies as they grew, throve and put on beef, they were bot the deeper needs of the female sex. Of course, there were attractions - there had to be, for women to swallow the ideological bait without perceiving either the hook or the poisonous lead weighing it down. None of these systems could have been imposed on women against their will. There had to be consent from the women members of each tribe, township or race proselytized by the zealots of the new gods, at some level. Which of them, though, presented with the first appealing package of function and freedom, could have known what she was consenting to for herself and all her female descendants for the next 2,000 years?”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Each in its own way, the five major belief systems of Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam by their nature insisted on the inferiority of women and demanded their subjection to values and imperatives devised to promote the supremacy of men.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Under patriarchal monotheism, womanhood was a life sentence of second-order existence.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Virginity came in with a vengeance as every budding patriarch suddenly realized his divine right to a vacuum-sealed, factory-fresh vagina with built-in hymenal gift-wrapping and purity guarantee.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“All so-called "laws of God" express in reality the will of man.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“The attack on women's bodies that was one of the most marked consequences of the imposition of patriarchal monotheism has no convenient onset or conclusion - but it was a principle determining factor of every woman's history over an extended period of time. It signaled, precipitated even, the decline of women into their long night of feudal oppression and grotesque persecution.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“For woman was an "intractable animal" and she displayed her brute unreason nowhere more clearly than in her refusable to acquiesce in her own subjection.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“For women were dangerous in every part of their anatomy, from top to toe. Luxuriant hair could excite lust accordingly the Jewish Talmud from A.D. 600 onward allowed a man to divorce a wife who appeared in public with her hair uncovered. While St Paul went so far as to instruct Christians that a woman who came bare headed to church had better have her head shaved. The female face was another Venus's flytrap for helpless males - in a bizarre piece of theology dated from the 3rd Century A.D., the early Christian father Tertullian held that "the blume of virgins" was responsible for the fall of the angels: "so perilous a face, then, ought to be kept shaded when it has cast stumbling stones even so far as heaven.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Within the face, woman concealed one of her most potent and treacherous weapons, her tongue.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“Patriarchy changed all that. With a genuine belief in the one God came the inescapable duty to enforce it upon others; with the claim to the patent on truth came for the first-time ideas of orthodoxy, habits of bigotry and the practice of persecution.”

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Book:Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”

“Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norms in which women cannot be equal agents of sexual pursuit, and in which men are entitled to gratification at all costs. It occurs because of inadequacies and inequalities in access to sexual literacy, sex education and sexual health services. It trades on unequal power dynamics between parties, and on racialized notions of innocence and guilt. Bad sex is a political issue, one of inequality of access to pleasure and self-determination, and it is as a political issue that we should be examining it, rather than retreating into an individualizing, shoulder-shrugging criticism of young women who are using the tools available to them to address the pains of their sexual lives.”

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Book:Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Source: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

“Female is real, and it’s sex, and femininity is unreal, and it’s gender.”

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Author:Germaine Greer

“When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.” Pockets are indeed indispensable, and they come in two types: patch and set-in”

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Book:Sew Any Set-In Pocket

Source: Sew Any Set-In Pocket

“Just as it is not the penis that commits rape, and not testosterone that drives it and not overwhelming sexual desire either, castration whether surgical or chemical will not eliminate men's hatred of women.”

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Book:On Rape

Source: On Rape

“Women’s liberation did not see the female’s potential in terms of the male’s actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.”

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Book:The Whole Woman

Source: The Whole Woman

“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“she is a storm, untamed she is a river, untouched”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“I'd rather have a heart of gold Than all the treasure of the world.”

Source: Memoirs of An Amazon

“She did not choose to become a wanderer. She did not take a conscious decision that she wants to become a wanderer. Destiny chose her to wander. And then she became a wanderer. The wanderings keep on happening on their own. And the wanderer keeps on wandering! The wanderer does not have a final home. She does not have a certain destination. She keeps on drifting from place to place. And wanderings become her destiny! And she becomes the wanderer!”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“That something? That thing you long for way more than good chocolate or a week in the Caribbean? It’s the full, uninhibited expression of your soul. It’s the essence of who you are and why you’re here. I also believe it to be the thing that your family, and the world, needs from you most.”

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Book:Motherwhelmed

Source: Motherwhelmed

“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future”

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Author:Manal al-Sharif

“The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch.”

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Book:Manhunting

Source: Manhunting

“The women's liberation movement of today in America, in its most oceanic sense, is a wish by women to be liked for something other than their reproductive abilities, especially since the planet is harrowingly overpopulated. And the rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment by male state legislators is this clear statement by men, in my opinion: "We're sorry, girls, but your reproductive abilities are about all we can really like you for." The truth.”

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Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“The suffragettes were easy to condemn, but hard to ignore. Their actions also boosted donations to peaceful, law-abiding suffragist societies. Many of those who claimed to be repelled by the militants were what we would now call "concern trolls" pretending to care about the success of a movement they never supported anyway.”

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Book:Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“Changing the world is always difficult.”

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Author:Helen Lewis

“I think that the trademark of the Devil in this world, is the awful rift between women. Women backbiting other women, women envying other women and so on and so forth. And then there is the telltale sign of God in this world, which is the intoxicating potion of joy that is concocted when a woman reaches out to another woman, when women will take an extra step, go an extra mile, or just go out of their way an inch for their fellow woman, regardless of the varying degrees of things we hold important such as beauty, intelligence, status and so on and so forth. Beautiful acts of God are seen in the kindness of women towards other women. And when I say this, I am also thinking about gay men in the same light.”

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Author:C. JoyBell C.

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”

Source: The Wanderess

“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.”

Source: Hope and Despair

“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.”

Source: The Wanderess

“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even crossed-eyes; and I’ll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.”

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Author:Roman Payne