Radical Feminism Quotes

• I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

  Robin Morgan

  Hate, Men, Class

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Feminist, Misandry, Institutions

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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• Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Feminist, Body

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• All men are rapists and that's all they are

  Marilyn French

  Hate, Men, Feminist

  TheWomen's Room ch. 5 (1977)

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• ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

  Susan Brownmiller

  Men, Feminist, Hate Groups

  Against OurWill ch. 1 (1975)

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• All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

  Unknown

  Sex, Couple, Feminist

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• Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

  Cheris Kramarae

  Women, Bad Ass, Feminist

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

  Andrea Dworkin

  Son, Feminist, Inevitable

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

  Susan Griffin

  Differences, Average, Feminist

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Rape: The Politics of Consciousness”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Class, Feminist, Males

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.42, Routledge

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• I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Fun, Feminist, Kind

  "Dworkin on Dworkin," an interview originally published in Off Our Backs, reprinted in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed Ed. by Renate Klein and Diane Bell,

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• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Choices, Feminist

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• Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Believe, Men, Abuse

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

  Sonia Johnson

  Men, Race, Class

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Feminist, Facts

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• Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Political, Musical

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• Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.

  Robert Bork

  Feminist, Western Culture, Movement

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• In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

  Helen Fielding

  Men, Unattractive, Ends

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• In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Feminist, Helping

  "Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2005.

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• We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

  Eva Burrows

  Sex, Mean, Men

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• In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might find they don't both need to. ... What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else - or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon - find themselves more affirmed by society? Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism.

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Children, Father

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Shoes

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• The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Feminist, Political, Culture

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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