Quotes About Oppression

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

There are people who don't like women holding power.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Women who have power are always feared.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.