Susan Brownmiller quotes
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“Women are all female impersonators to some degree.”
-- Susan BrownmillerSource : Susan Brownmiller (1985). “Femininity”, Fawcett
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“Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.”
-- Susan BrownmillerSource : Susan Brownmiller (2013). “Femininity”, p.86, Open Road Media
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“Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.”
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“We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech”
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“ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear”
-- Susan BrownmillerSource : Against OurWill ch. 1 (1975)
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“Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.”
-- Susan BrownmillerSource : Susan Brownmiller (2013). “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape”, p.577, Open Road Media
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Source : "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.
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“The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.”
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