gender subjugation Quotes

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Marriage is to woman a state of slavery. It takes from her the right to her own property, and makes her submissive in all things to her husband.

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

A female slave has (in Christian countries) an admitted right, … to refuse to her master the last familiarity. Not so the wife: however brutal a tyrant she may unfortunately be chained to

I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.