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| | "The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things" - Jilly Cooper, [[SCUM]] (Society For Cutting Up Men, started by [[Valerie Solanas]]) | | "The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things" - Jilly Cooper, [[SCUM]] (Society For Cutting Up Men, started by [[Valerie Solanas]]) |
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| | + | "Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human." - Robin Morgan |
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| | "Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage" - Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW | | "Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage" - Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW |
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| | "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice" - Ti-Grace Atkinson | | "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice" - Ti-Grace Atkinson |
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| | + | "It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it." - Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel |
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| | "Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear" - Susan Brownmiller; Authoress of Against Our Will p.6 | | "Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear" - Susan Brownmiller; Authoress of Against Our Will p.6 |
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| | 10. "The most merciful thing a large family can to do one of its infant members is to kill it" - Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in "Women and the New Race" p. 67 | | 10. "The most merciful thing a large family can to do one of its infant members is to kill it" - Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in "Women and the New Race" p. 67 |
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| − | "We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton | + | "Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy." - Estelle R. Ramey |
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| | + | "I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Our Girls" |
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| | + | "We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| | From 'A feminist Dictionary; ed. Kramarae and Triechler, Pandora Press, 1985: | | From 'A feminist Dictionary; ed. Kramarae and Triechler, Pandora Press, 1985: |
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