If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
Robin Morgan
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Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
Don't accept rides from strange men-and remember that all men are strange as hell.
Every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil.
I am an artist and a political being as well.
I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Sexism is NOT the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
We are the women men warned us about.
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
We're not inherently anything but human.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
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