"The Female Eunuch" Quotes

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have the chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

The housewife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

It's a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The institutions of male power will not collapse of their own accord. Women must see to it that they are pushed.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.