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P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women. — Paulo Freire

Here is the nexus of where work, gender, marriage, and money collide: Dependency. — Rebecca Traister

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan. — Jennifer Lynch

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

Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age is truly an oppression for women. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk. — Susan Orlean

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. — Brandi Carlile

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide — Gary Haugen

I still can't stop marveling that this same boy chose me; and I'm glad that I can't, for we should rejoice in being seen, needed. Loved. — Melanie Benjamin

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated — Mukhtar Ma'i

Life is too short to be busy. — Tim Kreider

The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression. — Bell Hooks

Forget all that has passed.
Forget all you've heard.
Forget all your preconceived fears.
See me for who I am, not who you thought I was. — Jessiqua Wittman

Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press, 1973. — Philippa Gregory

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion. — Anne Nicol Gaylor

Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression. — Nocturnus Libertus

Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old? — W.B.Yeats

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer. — James Cook

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected. — Jo Dee Messina

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes — Tupac Shakur

As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence. — Allan G. Johnson

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. — Richard Dawkins

Feminism has never just been about liberating women from men, but about freeing every human being from the straitjacket of gender oppression. — Laurie Penny

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression. — Frederick Lenz

Women are a colonized people. — Robin Morgan

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. — Erica Jong

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that. — Dick Cheney

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression. — Farah Diba

He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so ... — George Orwell

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — Audre Lorde

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. — Robin Morgan

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression. — Amanda Lindhout

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression. — Zainab Salbi

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. — Kate Millett