Feminist Author Quotes

#1. Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

Maggie Young

#2. Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. Your true passion in life is what you'd be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Maggie Young

#4. In all those cases, in accordance with the theme of this book, increases in economic freedom have gone hand in hand with increases in political and civil freedom and have led to increased prosperity; competitive capitalism and freedom have been inseparable.

Milton Friedman

#5. We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal.

John McCain

#6. You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Maggie Young

#7. But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.
[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]

Hilary Mantel

#8. The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

Simon Kuznets

#9. The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Maggie Young

#10. Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action

Carol Anne Douglas

#11. No scorn like the scorn of an aging queen for a pretty girl with a crap fake DL.

Janet Fitch