“ What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into… Jane Caputi
“ Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens. Sheila Jeffreys
“ Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships. Andrea Dworkin
“ [Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Susan Brownmiller
