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I fear for the future. I fear for the liberty and equality of the millions of women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.
- Abortion
- Women
The goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 2, p. 31
- Power
- Women
We teach boys to be afraid of fear. We teach boys to be afraid of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian speak, “hard man!”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013
- Fear
- Men
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
Andrea Dworkin1946–2005Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)
- Men
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Granite and Rainbow (1958), “Women and Fiction”
- Women
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 377
- Age
- Women
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 6
- Thinking
- Women
He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
John Buchan1875–1940The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. XI
- Comedy
- Women
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. Henry1862–1910Roads of Destiny (1909)
- Men
- Women
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)
- Women
I’ve been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Letter to Marlene Dietrich (1 July 1950)
- Love
- Women
A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (1991), Introduction
- Age
- Women
Like many men, I can never find anything that I’m looking for, even when I’m actually looking at it.
Jeremy Clarksonborn 1960Sunday Times September 6, 2009
- Comedy
- Men
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Interview with Joan Biskupic, “Ginsburg: Court needs another woman”, USA Today (May 2009)
- Women
Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.
Erica Jongborn 1942How to Save Your Own Life (1977)