24-10-2022, 10:27 AM
"Whatever the motivation, male sexuality & violence in our culture seem to be inseparable. James Bond alternately whips out his revolver & his cock, & though there is no known connection between the skills of gun-fighting & love-making, pacifism seems suspiciously effeminate."
Susan Griffin
"We are told that men protect us, that they are generous, even chivalric in their protection.
Gentlemen, if your protectors were women, & they took all your property & your children, & paid you half as much for your work, though as well or better done, would you think much of the chivalry which permitted you to sit on streetcars & picked up your pocket handkerchief?"
Mary B Clay
"If ever you want a really good laugh, I would recommend reading up some of the incredibly involved & convoluted arguments of a male evolutionist trying to explain why woman, alone of all the primates, equipped herself with a hymen, which appears on the face of it to have no other purpose than to keep him out."
Elaine Morgan
"Women do not often recognise that courtship is a phase in which the preferences of women are ritualistically catered to: the wooing is a preliminary concession to those pressure contacts women love - gentleness, tenderness, kissing, caressing. With marriage comes a startling change of events, the woman's preferences being set aside in favour of the duties of marriage.
The man has heroically fulfilled the role of suitor, onerous though it may have been, & now considers it his right to indulge his own preferred types of pressure contact, learned on the playing field."
Rita Herschberge
"We ask ourselves in some bewilderment, if women commit deeds of violence only when their monthly period induces an emotional instability, when do men commit their six times as many deeds of violence?"
Alice Beal Parsons
"Did anyone ever tell Toscanini or Bach that he had to choose between music & family, between art & a normal life?"
Elizabeth Mann Borgese 1963
"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper or listening to his regular breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room."
Ibid.
"The labour of women in the house certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise would, & in this way, women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1898
"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood."
Erica Jong
Susan Griffin
"We are told that men protect us, that they are generous, even chivalric in their protection.
Gentlemen, if your protectors were women, & they took all your property & your children, & paid you half as much for your work, though as well or better done, would you think much of the chivalry which permitted you to sit on streetcars & picked up your pocket handkerchief?"
Mary B Clay
"If ever you want a really good laugh, I would recommend reading up some of the incredibly involved & convoluted arguments of a male evolutionist trying to explain why woman, alone of all the primates, equipped herself with a hymen, which appears on the face of it to have no other purpose than to keep him out."
Elaine Morgan
"Women do not often recognise that courtship is a phase in which the preferences of women are ritualistically catered to: the wooing is a preliminary concession to those pressure contacts women love - gentleness, tenderness, kissing, caressing. With marriage comes a startling change of events, the woman's preferences being set aside in favour of the duties of marriage.
The man has heroically fulfilled the role of suitor, onerous though it may have been, & now considers it his right to indulge his own preferred types of pressure contact, learned on the playing field."
Rita Herschberge
"We ask ourselves in some bewilderment, if women commit deeds of violence only when their monthly period induces an emotional instability, when do men commit their six times as many deeds of violence?"
Alice Beal Parsons
"Did anyone ever tell Toscanini or Bach that he had to choose between music & family, between art & a normal life?"
Elizabeth Mann Borgese 1963
"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper or listening to his regular breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room."
Ibid.
"The labour of women in the house certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise would, & in this way, women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1898
"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood."
Erica Jong
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)