#feminism

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#housekeeping #orgasm #sex #sexuality #women

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#feminism #othello #equality

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#concept #defining #feminism #gave #gift

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#assumed #critical #done #felt #feminism

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#equality #feminism #beauty

Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else. ↗

— Marilyn Waring

#economy #feminism #marketing #society #beauty

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.* ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#feminism #politics #religion

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#allow #easier #established #feminism #mainstream

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else. ↗

— A. Nicholas Groth

#psychology #experience