The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy….Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
– Phyllis Schlafly
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- The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. – Phyllis Schlafly
- Feminism…is not ‘women as victims’ but women refusing to be victims. – Gloria Steinem
- I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
- Don’t imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action. – Tony Curl
- Feminist movement is pro-family. – bell hooks
- First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. – bell hooks
- What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won’t get the vim to step out of their situations. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. – Julian Assange
- The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women’s shame. – Laurie Penny
- Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven’t met. – Maggie Georgiana Young
- Peace in patriarchy is war against women. – Maria Mies
- There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. – Adrienne Rich
- If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way – Eve Ensler
- As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. – bell hooks
- Men will not save women for nothing, but themselves. Women have to save themselves. – MF Moonzajer
- Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creates movement, where fear limits movement. – Rn Gaudette
- Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish. – John Collier
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. – Alfred Adler
- A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. – Martin Luther King Jr
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life – Sunday Adelaja
- No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. – Timothy Snyder
- A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood. – Criss Jami
- Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom. – Deepak Burfiwala
- Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom. – Deepak Burfiwala
- This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself. – Tony Curl
- Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down…or prisons self-imposed. – Chriscinthia Blount
- The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality. – Pearl Zhu
- If you’re struggling to -œthink outside the box- remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias? – Ryan Lilly
- This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile. – Peggy KopmanOwens
- A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity. – Kilroy J Oldster
- ?????c Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don’t even have an idea where women’s imaginations can reach..! – Himmilicious
- Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others. – Sunday Adelaja
- Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
- What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history? – Mary Jo Bowman
- As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive. – Teresa R Funke
- Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned. – Ina Catrinescu
- The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive – Han Kang
- To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. – Mark Galli