Feminism Quote Bank
The State
Type Person Quote
Catharine A. MacKinnon the law sees and treats
women the way men see
and treat women
Radical Kate Millet “A revolution is not the
overturning of a cart, a
reshuffling in the cards of
state. It is a process, a
swelling, a new growth in
the race’
“Governments who
manipulate population
growth have two choices:
making maternity pleasant,
or making it inescapable
Socialist Shelia Row Botham ‘only in a society where
complete equality is
imposed will women
achieve equal status to
men’
Human Nature
Equality Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘Biological differences
between men and women
are irrelevant’
‘John laughs at me but one
must expect that in a
marriage’ (from book the
yellow wallpaper)
Equality Simone de Beauvoir Women are seen as ‘other’
socialised into ‘women’
"women are made not
born"
Radical Germaine Greer ‘Men deeply loathe women’
Socialist Shelia Row Botham "every human being can be
brave, responsible, thinking
and diligent in the struggle
to live at once freely and
unselfishly."
The State
Type Person Quote
Catharine A. MacKinnon the law sees and treats
women the way men see
and treat women
Radical Kate Millet “A revolution is not the
overturning of a cart, a
reshuffling in the cards of
state. It is a process, a
swelling, a new growth in
the race’
“Governments who
manipulate population
growth have two choices:
making maternity pleasant,
or making it inescapable
Socialist Shelia Row Botham ‘only in a society where
complete equality is
imposed will women
achieve equal status to
men’
Human Nature
Equality Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘Biological differences
between men and women
are irrelevant’
‘John laughs at me but one
must expect that in a
marriage’ (from book the
yellow wallpaper)
Equality Simone de Beauvoir Women are seen as ‘other’
socialised into ‘women’
"women are made not
born"
Radical Germaine Greer ‘Men deeply loathe women’
Socialist Shelia Row Botham "every human being can be
brave, responsible, thinking
and diligent in the struggle
to live at once freely and
unselfishly."
