Quotes About Radical Feminism

#1. Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Phyllis Schlafly

#3. One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

Sonia Johnson

#4. Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession ... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

Vivian Gornick

#5. We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

Eva Burrows

#6. At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

Hilda Scott

#7. And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

Susan Griffin

#8. Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

Sheila Jeffreys

#9. Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard.

Finn Mackay

#10. In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Gloria Steinem

#11. Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

Andrea Dworkin

#12. One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.

Andrea Dworkin

#13. Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

Jerry Falwell

#14. [Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time]

"The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God." - Deutronomy 22:5

Miriam Gurko

#15. Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)

Clara Bingham

#16. I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance.

Anne Lamott

#17. Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.

Sheila Jeffreys

#18. One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher rates of PTSD? Women who have escaped prostitution. That tells me that the war that men wage against women is actually worse than the wars they wage against each other.

Lierre Keith

#19. I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

Andrea Dworkin

#20. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)]

Marie Shear

#21. At the core, feminism simply consists of the radical notion that women are people, too.

Sarah Bessey

#22. As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

Sheila Jeffreys

#23. Feminism, as writer Marie Sheer remarked in 1986, "is the radical notion that women are people," a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless.

Rebecca Solnit

#24. Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

Gail Dines

#25. Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

Catharine MacKinnon

#26. [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

#27. Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

Gloria Steinem

#28. The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.

Angela Y. Davis

#29. This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.

Sheila Jeffreys

#30. A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Andrea Dworkin

#31. The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

Ti-Grace Atkinson

#32. Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.

Andrea Dworkin

#33. All men are rapists and that's all they are

Marilyn French

#34. The Warrior Princess Submissive is - at least in my humble opinion - quite possibly destined to be the hope and salvation of the D/s lifestyle from an ever-increasing wave of attacks by a small cadre of radical feminists and misandrists who seek to equate D/s with misogyny.

Michael Makai

#35. All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

Catharine MacKinnon

#36. Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in this understanding, engaged in social control.

Sheila Jeffreys

#37. Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#38. Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Gloria Steinem

#39. My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#40. 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 pertains to female subordination.

Sheila Jeffreys

#41. Radical feminists didn't need FBI infiltration - the mechanism for sisterly cannibalization was already well under way.

Susie Bright

#42. Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

Sheila Jeffreys

#43. Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

Sheila Jeffreys