Thinkers' quotes Flashcards
Gilman
“The labour of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
de Beauvoir
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth”.
“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority”.
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”.
Millett
“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.”
“It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning”.
Rowbotham
“Men will often admit other women are oppressed, but not you.”
“It is only when women start to organise in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility of a truly democratic society.”
“Revolution within a revolution.”
bell hooks
“Women need to unlearn self-hatred.”
“To be feminist in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression”.
