Radical Feminism Quotes

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

Forget the myths you have heard about radical feminism, for only some of them are true. Instead, prepare to think about why so many lies are told about this particular brand of feminism, how it acts as a scapegoat for all that is most threatening about our social movement and how any revolutionary movement for change could really ever be anything but threatening. These are the women you were warned about; you can be too.