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1 " [in the context of 1881] " Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need-" " What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while. "
2 " Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved? "
― Stephanie Dray , America's First Daughter
3 " There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple. "
― Joss Whedon
4 " Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength - like lions and tigers -" " And giraffes?" interpolated Colonel Race slyly. I laughed. Everyone makes fun of that giraffe." And giraffes. They were nomadic, you see. It wasn't till they settled down in communities, and women did one kind of thing and men another, that women got weak. And of course, underneath, one is still the same - one feels the same, I mean - and that is why women worship physical strength in men - it's what they once had and have lost." " Almost ancestor worship, in fact?" " Something of the kind." " And you really think that's true? That women worship strength, I mean?" " I think it's quite true - if one's honest. You think you admire moral qualities,but when you fall in love, you revert to the primitive where the physical is all that counts. But I don't think that's the end, if you lived in primitive conditions it would be all right, but you don't - and so, in the end, the other thing wins after all. It's the things that are apparently conquered that always do win, isn't it? They win in the only way that counts. Like what the Bible says about losing your life and finding it.”.“In the end," said Colonel Race thoughtfully, " you fall in love - and you fall out of it, is that what you mean?" " Not exactly, but you can put it that way if you like. "
5 " So what is transgressive in the practice of this secret Tantra is the gesture not to elide the difference that women present. What does this mean? That women represent not merely objects, property, or the possibility of sexual gratification, but an opening point to the possibility of difference as the subjectivity of the other. . .Rather, a recognition of the difference women present offers the possibility of a choice not to objectify women. This recognition recodes gendered relations inscribing woman discursively in the place of the subject. "
― , Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex, and Speech in Tantra
6 " And yet the idea that women are human beings remains news, a message that requires constant, clear, and artful reinforcement in a world that continues to undermine the confidence and abilities of girls and women. On the day that the intelligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine. "
― Anita Diamant , The Red Tent
7 " Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence, which is ‘violence that is exercised upon a social agent with his or her complicity’...provides an explanation of how social inequalities can continue largely unabated. Within this perspective, individual subjects are subjected to various forms of violence, such as being treated unfairly or denied resources, or are limited in their social mobility and aspirations, but they do not tend to see it that way; rather it is misrecognised by individual subjects as the natural order of things. Gender domination in the patriarchal family is an example of symbolic violence in operation. Through habitus formation in this context, women were often confined emotionally, socially, economically and physically and the perception that women were inferior to men in the home and more generally in society was perpetuated. Women’s misrecognition of this violence as ‘natural’ and ‘normal’ gendered relations in the world led to their being complicit in reinscribing through their daily practices, their own domination. "
― kerry H Robinson
8 " As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one. "
― John Irving , The World According to Garp
