Radical Feminist Quotes

• I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

  Gary Bauer

  Intelligent, Government, Feminist

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• Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Men, Justice

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.87, Open Road Media

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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, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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

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• The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

  Sally Miller Gearhart

  Hate, Men, Race

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• We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

  Robin Morgan

  Men, Feminist, Misandry

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• 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, Radical Feminism

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

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

  Marilyn French

  Hate, Men, Radical Feminism

  TheWomen's Room ch. 5 (1977)

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

  Linda Gordon

  Feminist, Nuclear Families, Revolutionary

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Religious, Hero, Airplane

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

  Susan Brownmiller

  Men, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  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, Radical Feminism

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• Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Practice, Feminist, Feminism

  "Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in" by Gregg Jarrett, www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

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• Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

  Cheris Kramarae

  Women, Bad Ass, Radical Feminism

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• If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.

  Mary Daly

  Thinking, Feminist, Males

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• Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Men, High Heels

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• The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

  Sharon Stone

  Hurt, Powerful, Hate

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• Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminist, Patriarch, Capitalism

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• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

  Germaine Greer

  Hate, Women, Memorable

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Encouragement, Jesus, Real

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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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• The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Children, Feminist

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

  Andrea Dworkin

  Fun, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  "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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• Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Government, Goal, Feminist

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• On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Self, Expression, Feminist

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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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, Radical Feminism, Choices

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