Feminism Quotes - Page 13

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.

When she was a child,
my love carried a road map in her hand
the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

...take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you’s.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.

Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.

I strike terror among men,
I can't be bothered by what they think.

And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.