Quotes About Oppression

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation

When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Under Saddam Hussein, speaking Kurdish was against the law, which effectively made it a dying language - like a dialect of Native American Cherokee, it didn't have much use outside of the tribe. By speaking it, it seemed I was touching the very soul of every man and woman in the room, and they weren't shy about telling me how much it meant to them.