Quotes About Liberation

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

I like aggressive and sexually liberated women. It's hot to me.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

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

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

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

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.