60 quotes
They still say "fuck you" as a venomous insult; they still find "cunt" the most degrading epithet outside the dictionary.
The Female Eunuch (1970)
The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
The goal was ‘every child a wanted child’; it should also have been ‘every abortion a wanted abortion’, but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.
The Whole Woman (1999)
When the burning and shivering stopped and I could see again only what was there, I stayed enthralled by clarity.
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
Great art, for those who insist upon this rather philistine concept (as if un-great art were unworthy of even their most casual and ill-informed attention), makes us stand back and admire.
The Obstacle Race (1979)
Sexism is here a misleading name for misogyny, which is distrust, hatred and contempt of women. And it's not just men who feel these feelings and act on them.
A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (1991)
However diverse they may be, they need not be utterly irreconcilable, because they will not be conquistatorial.
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
The Female Eunuch (1970)
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle.
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him...
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.
The Whole Woman (1999)
Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
In sex, as in consumption, the nuclear family emphasizes possession and exclusivity at the expense of the kinds of emotional relationships that work for co-operation and solidarity.
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.
The Whole Woman (1999)
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood — if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Regardless of the dutiful pushing of condoms in the girls' press, the exposure of baby vaginas and cervixes to the penis is more likely to result in pregnancy and infection than orgasm.
The Whole Woman (1999)