Gloria Steinem:
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.


Erma Bombeck:
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.


Betty Friedan:
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

speech, New York City, January 20, 1974


Rush Limbaugh:
Feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.

-Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.


Elaine Heffner:
Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.  (... Elaine with da big brain).


Germaine (with da big brain) Greer

-I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.


-I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

-Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

-The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

-The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.( .....Whaa?  )

-The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

-We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.  (....Do tell)

-Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. (..just you and your ilk Germaine)

-Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?  (...who ever demanded that women wear high-heeled shoes and buy them by the thousands?)

-You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
(Living proof?)