Quotes About Oppression

toda a história das mulheres foi feita pelos homens. (...) As mulheres que realizaram obras comparáveis às dos homens (...) demonstram brilhantemente que não foi a inferioridade feminina que determinou a sua insignificância histórica: foi, antes, a sua insignificância histórica que as votou à inferioridade.

As virgens que o homem não dominou, as mulheres velhas que escaparam ao seu poder, são mais facilmente do que as outras encaradas como feiticeiras.

Si la mujer es prosaica, casera, bajamente utilitaria, se debe a que le imponen que consagre su existencia a preparar alimentos y limpiar deyecciones. No será de ahí de donde podrá extraer el sentido de la grandeza.

Encierran a la mujer en una cocina o un tocador y se asombran de que su horizonte esté limitado; le cortan las alas y deploran que no sepa volar.

oppression is explained by the tendency of the existent to flee from himself by alienating himself in the other that he oppresses for that purpose; this tendency can be found in each individual man today: and the vast majority give in to it; a husband looks for himself in his wife, a lover in his mistress, in the guise of a stone statue; he seeks in her the myth of his virility, his sovereignty, his unmediated reality.

Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have one only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have taken nothing; they have received.

What is beyond doubt is that until now women's possibilities have been stifled and lost to humanity, and in her and everyone's interest it is high time she be left to take her own chances.

It is that they lack the concrete means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition. They have no past, no history, no religion of their own; and unlike the proletariat, they have no solidarity of labor or interests; they even lack their own space… They live disbursed among men, tied by homes, work, economic interests, and social conditions to certain men- fathers or husbands- more closely than to other women.

Trudno bowiem m??czy?nie oceni? ogromne znaczenie dyskryminacji spoÅ'ecznych, które na zewnÄ…trz wydajÄ… siÄ™ bÅ'ahe, a których konsekwencje moralne i intelektualne tkwiÄ… w kobiecie tak gÅ'Ä™boko, ?e wydajÄ… siÄ™ mie? ?ródÅ'o w jej pierwotnej strukturze.

A woman on her own they think they can do anything how despicable people are when you're down they stamp on you. I kick back I keep my end up but a woman alone is spat on.

Today, the majority of workers are exploited. Moreover, social structures have not been deeply modified by the changes in women's condition. This world has always belonged to men and still retains the form they have imprinted on it.

El opresor no sería tan fuerte si no tuviese cómplices entre los propios oprimidos

L'homme a réussi à asservir la femme : mais dans cette mesure il l'a dépouillée de ce qui en rendait la possession désirable.

C'est en grande partie l'angoisse d'être femme qui ronge le corps féminin.

Une liberté qui ne s'emploie qu'à nier la liberté doit être niée.

Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them. Lord-man will materially protect liege-woman and will be in charge of justifying her existence: along with the economic risk, she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help.

U lepo obu?enoj i iski?enoj ženi priroda je prisutna, ali je zarobljena, modelirana ljudskom voljom po želji muškarca. Žena je utoliko privla?nija ukoliko je njena priroda bujnija i u njoj pot?injenija - to je žena sofisti?ke opsene koja je uvek bila idealni erotski objekat.

Les femmes ne sont pas solidaires en tant que sexe : elles sont d'abord liées à leur classe. Les intérêts des bourgeoises et ceux des femmes prolétaires ne se recoupent pas.

Bourgeoises, elles sont solidaires des bourgeois et non des femmes prolétaires ; blanches des hommes blancs et non des femmes noires

Muž je v práve preto, že je muž. V nepráve je žena.

ByÃ…Â¥ ženou znamená byÃ…Â¥ objektom, tou Druhou.

Few myths have been more advantageous to the ruling master caste than this one: it justifies all privileges and even authorizes taking advantage of them. Men do not have to care about alleviating the suffering and the burdens that are physiologically women's lot since they are intended by Nature; they take this as pretext for increasing the misery of the women's condition-- for example, by denying woman the right to sexual pleasure, or making her work like a beast of burden.

Women is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity.

Muži sú tyrani... Zaobchádzajú s nami ako s hra?kami... robia si z nás prá?ky a kuchárky.