Quotes by Decter, Midge

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the s >>

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but >>

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a gen >>

Quotations about Feminism

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. >>

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, >>

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, >>

The fundamental impulse of the movement is neither masturbatory nor concretely lesbian -- although it of course offers warm house to both these possibilities; it is an impulse to maidenhood -- to that condition in which a woman might pretend to a false fear or loathing of the penis in order to escape from any responsibility for the pleasure and well-being of the man who possesses it.

Decter, Midge