Downloaded from: justpaste.it/femisismquotes "Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex." ~Valerie Solanas, the SCUM Manifesto ___________________________________________________ "The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist." ~National NOW Times, Jan.1988 ____________________________________________________ "Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience." ~Catherine Comins, Vassar College, Assistant Dean of Student Life in Time, June 3, 1991, p. 52 ____________________________________________________ "The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it" ~Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in Women and the New Rage, p.67 ____________________________________________________ “I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” ~Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor ____________________________________________________ “To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.” ~Valerie Solanas ____________________________________________________ “I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.” ~Andrea Dworkin ____________________________________________________ “Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear” ~Susan Brownmiller ____________________________________________________ “The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.” ~Sharon Stone ____________________________________________________ “In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.” ~Catherine MacKinnon ____________________________________________________ “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” ~Sally Miller Gearhart ____________________________________________________ “All men are rapists and that’s all they are” ~Marilyn French ____________________________________________________ “Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.” ~Germaine Greer ____________________________________________________ "Sex is the cross on which women are crucified … Sex can only be adequately defined as universal rape." ~Hodee Edwards ____________________________________________________ "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat." ~Hillary Clinton ____________________________________________________ “MAN: … an obsolete life form… an ordinary creature who needs to be watched … a contradictory baby-man …” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ”TESTOSTERONE POISONING: … ‘Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’” ~A Feminist Dictionary ____________________________________________________ "Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself… The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home." ~Gloria Steinem in Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, pp. 259-261. ____________________________________________________ "Women take their roles of caretakers very seriously and when they hear of someone who’s taken advantage of a child, they react more strongly than men do." ~Kathleen C. Faller ____________________________________________________ "I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it." ~Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan ____________________________________________________ "I wonder if he [Martin Luther King] really accomplished things, or if he just stirred people up and caused a lot of riots." ~Melbourne City Councilwoman Pat Poole on her opposition to renaming a street for Martin Luther King ____________________________________________________ "Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman," ~Andrea Dworkin, Liberty, p.58 ____________________________________________________ "Compare victims’ reports of rape with women’s reports of sex. They look a lot alike….[T]he major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it." ~Catherine MacKinnon, quoted in Christina Hoff Sommers, “Hard-Line Feminists Guilty of Ms.- Representation,” Wall Street Journal, November 7, 1991. ____________________________________________________ "The fact is that the process of killing - both rape and battery are steps in that process- is the prime sexual act for men in reality and/or in imagination.". ~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 22.. ____________________________________________________ "Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire, and the first crude stone axe." ~Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, p. 5.. ____________________________________________________ "The newest variations on this distressingly ancient theme center on hormones and DNA: men are biologically aggressive; their fetal brains were awash in androgen; their DNA, in order to perpetuate itself, hurls them into murder and rape." ~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 114.. ____________________________________________________ When asked: “You [Greer] were once quoted as saying your idea of the ideal man is a woman with a dick. Are you still that way inclined?" Dr Greer (denying that she said it): “I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I’m concerned, men are the product of a damanged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they’re doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they’re manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop. I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don’t take place anywhere near an ovum. I don’t know that the ecosphere can tolerate it.” ~Germaine Greer, at a Hilton Hotel literary lunch, promoting her book #34; The Change— Women, Aging and the Menopause#34; . From a newsreport dated 14/11/91 ____________________________________________________ "One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible." ~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 21.. ____________________________________________________ "Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire." ~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 265.. ____________________________________________________ "AIDS education will not get very far until young men are taught how not to rape young women and how to eroticize trust and consent; and until young women are supported in the way they need to be redefining their desires." ~Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 168.. ____________________________________________________ "In everything men make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, still their sobs as they mourn the empitness and alienation of their lives." ~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 214.. ____________________________________________________ "One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that’s what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available." ~Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 145.. ____________________________________________________ "Romance is rape embellished with meaningful looks." ~Andrea Dworkin in the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1995.. ____________________________________________________ "All men