Susan Brownmiller famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
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Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.
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Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.
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We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech
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ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear
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Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.
-- Susan Brownmiller
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
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The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
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In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
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When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.
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The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.
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