Our task is to define what we call oppression (..), to make it evident that women are a class, which is to say that the category “woman” as well as the category “man” are political and economic categories not eternal ones. Our fight aims to suppress men as a class, through (..) a political struggle.

"The more financially independent, in control of events, educated and sexually autonomous women become in the world, the more impoverished, out of control, foolish, and sexually insecure we are asked to feel in our bodies."

Naomi Wolf in The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

"Most women, holding on for dear life, do not dare abandon blind faith. From father's house to husband's house to a grave that still might not be her own, a woman acquiesces to male authority in order to gain some protection from male violence."

Andrea Dworkin in Right-Wing Women (1983)