Basis Of Women S Oppression Quotes & Sayings

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. — Ed Sheeran

To achieve beauty, a woman must first achieve health. — Elizabeth Arden

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone. — Jethro Tull

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account ... — James Clerk Maxwell

The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:]

It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker's wife is also condemned to silence by her worker-husband. In other words, in addition to the class exploitation common to both of them, women must confront a particular set of relations that exist between them and men, relations of conflict and violence that use physical differences as their pretext. — Thomas Sankara

It was the 'Are the boys doing it?' basis on which I finally decided I was against women wearing burkas. Yes, the idea is that it protects your modesty, and ensures that people regard you as a human being, rather than just a sexual object (...) But who are you being protected from? Men. And who - so long as you play by the rules, and wear the correct clothes - is protecting you from the men? Men. And who is it that is regarding you as a sexual object, instead of another human being, in the first place? Men.
Well. This all seems like quite a man-based problem, really. (...) I don't know why we're suddenly having to put things on our heads to make it better. — Caitlin Moran

We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy. — John Fowles

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father. — Richard Llewellyn

Open up the full capacity of the heart and mind. — Steven Redhead

Karma was a bitch with a good sense of humor. — Jill Shalvis

I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law. — Khaled Hosseini

If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C.S. Lewis