"Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commit..."
- bell hooks
"Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dom..."
- Sheila Jeffreys
"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 pertai..."
"Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing."
- Gail Dines
"It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do ..."
"Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims."
- Gloria Steinem
"We have to imagine something before we can build the infrastructure that will allow it to exist. We have failed here on both fronts: in imagination and in reality. Our great weirdos, from Emily Dickin..."
- Jessa Crispin
"Forget the myths you have heard about radical feminism, for only some of them are true. Instead, prepare to think about why so many lies are told about this particular brand of feminism, how it acts a..."
- Finn Mackay
"Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard."
"[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear."
- Susan Brownmiller