Feminist Philosophy Quotes

“it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“[Women] have no history, religion of their own, and they are not like the proletarian solidarity work and interests (…) They live dispersed among men, attached by housing, labor, economic, social condition in some men – fathers or husbands – more closely than other women”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“But as for the rest of you, sisters, when anyone says to you, this, that or the other is natural, then fight. Nature does not know best; for the birds, for the bees, for the cows; for men, perhaps. But your interests and Nature’s do not coincide. Nature our Friend is an argument used, quite understandably, by men.”
― Fay Weldon, Praxis

“Ethical loneliness is the isolation one feels when one, as a violated person or as one member of a persecuted group, has been abandoned by humanity, or by those who have power over one’s life’s possibilities.”
― Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard