Ti-Grace Atkinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Feminism #Movement #Resistance
I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Sleep #Sexuality #Prepared
Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Practice #Feminist #Feminism
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Love Is #Feminist #Psychological
Love is the victim's response to the rapist.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Love #Love Is #Victim
The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Feminist #Institutions #Anti Feminist
The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide.... I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Suicide #Taken #Men
Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Powerful #Sisterhood
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Brutal #Consequence
Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Practice #Feminism #Theory
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#America #Honest Woman #Honest

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