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

Evelyn Cunningham

A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.

Michele Le Doeuff

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Erica Jong

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Camille Paglia

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.

Charlotte Bunch

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

Jane Galvin Lewis

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

Liz Stanley and Sue Wise

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Frank O\'Connor

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Shana Alexander

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Mignon McLaughlin

Like Broadway, the novel, and God, feminism has been declared dead many times.

Katha Pollitt

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

Wyndham Lewis

Although feminism speaks the language of liberation, self-fulfillment, options, and the removal of barriers, these phrases invariably mean their opposites and disguise an agenda at variance with the ideals of a free society.

Michael Levin

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.

Camille Paglia

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

Elizabeth Fox Genovese

I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes ... at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Marilyn French

Feminism is a recognition of the domination of men over women and attempts by women to end male privilege.... It is a theory, a method, and a practice which seeks to transform human relations.

Cynthia Orozco

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

Cybil Shepherd

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl."

Shirley Chisholm

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir

Feminism is a program for making different beings -- men and women -- turn out alike, and ... it must do a good deal of chopping to fit the real world into its ideal.

Michael Levin

The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson

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