You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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Jodi Picoult
As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's...
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Mildred D. Taylor
Men can be relentless, " she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.
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Rae Carson
There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.
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Rae Carson
This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
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Frances Hardinge
More Quotes By Catharine A. MacKinnon
This defines the task of feminism not only because male dominance is perhaps the most pervasive and tenacious system of power in history, but because it is metaphysically near perfect. Its point of view is the standard for point-of-viewlessness, its particularity the meaning of universality....
Women, it is said, possess corresponding power. Through consciousness-raising, women found that women's so-called power was the other side of female powerlessness. A women's supposed power to deny sex is the underside of her actual lack of power to stop it. Women's supposed power to...
To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is.
Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened.. it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice; they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex....
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction...
