Quotes About Oppression

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

Men feared witches and burned women.

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

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.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.