Feminist Quotes

A Level Politics Feminism Quotes

Charlotte Perkins Gilman about marriage comparible to prostitution?

‘The transient trade we think evil, the bargain for the life we think good’

What is Charlotte Perkins Book?

The Yellow Wallpaper

Simone de Beauvoir book?

The second sex

Simone de Beauvoir about society making women?

One is not born but becomes a woman

Simone de Beauvoir about woman being opressed due to their bodies and simply being born a woman?

Her ovaries condemn her to live forever on her knees

Socialist quote about woman being slave alongside men

Slave of a slave

Socialist quote of what women are within society towards men who are opressed?

Warm Bath

Kate Millet quote about reform not being enough?

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still

Kate Millet quote about false conciousness?

It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against

bell hooks quote about women being forgotten in turn for black men?

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialised out of existence as have black women…when black people are talked about, the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about, the focus tends to be on white women”

bell hooks quote abouut intersectionality of systems?

“imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”

What does bell hooks describe patriachy as (a blight of soceity)

Single-most life threatening social disease

Andrea Dworkin of the patriachal nature of pornography and exploitative nature of hetreosexual relationships

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman

Naomi Wolf on society conditioning women to look good for men

Beauty is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact

post modern Andre Lorde that racial inequality is a key component of combating gender inewuality despite many feminists overlooking black voices

Argued that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house