Sourced and curated.

Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

Robin Morgan

1977

★ 1.9

Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Andrea Dworkin

1981

★ 1.9

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 2.0

I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists · 2014

★ 2.0

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 2.1

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

The Feminine Mystique · 1963

★ 2.1

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Valerie Solanas

S.C.U.M. Manifesto · 1967

★ 2.6

Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning and women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.

Alice Rossi

The Feminist Papers · 1973

★ 2.6

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a Divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 2.9

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 2.9

Novel · Feminist literature

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying · 1973

★ 3.5

Men may have had their own very good reasons for bringing women up in servitude, but the soul of a servant is not an attractive thing, and one of the most infuriating aspects of women's constricted upbringing is that it has made them less attractive, even in the eyes of their constrictors, than they should have been. Man has twisted and pruned women out of all recognition and then not liked the results.

Janet Radcliffe Richards

The Sceptical Feminst · 1980

★ 3.5

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Mary Astell

An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex · 1696

★ 3.5

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

1973

★ 3.5

If God is male, then the male is God.

Mary Daly

Beyond God the Father · 1973

★ 3.6

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.7

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.7