Brownmiller Quotes

#1. You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit. - Susan Brownmiller

Ariel Levy

#2. I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

Emma Donoghue

#3. The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Jean Baudrillard

#4. Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

Susan Brownmiller

#5. In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.

Jacques Diouf

#6. See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.

Bob Goff

#7. Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.

Susan Brownmiller

#8. If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

T. Harv Eker

#9. Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

Nora Roberts

#10. I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

Eric Bana

#11. Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

Bill Gates

#12. She became vulnerable before me, opening herself and letting me own her until I lost myself and became a beast. Without her armor, she was more beautiful than I'd imagined possible.

C.D. Reiss

#13. I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

Hilarie Burton

#14. Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

Susan Brownmiller

#15. I've been told I've done a lot of flop movies. And I think, 'Wow, I've never considered them flops!' I've loved every character I played.

Robin Wright

#16. I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#17. We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech

Susan Brownmiller

#18. The teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

Becky Freeman

#19. [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