Susan Brownmiller
(1935-)

American Feminist, Journalist, Social Activist

birthdate: February 15
birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York

QUOTES

WOMEN'S RIGHTS
“We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech”

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

My purpose in this book has been to give rape its history. Now we must deny it a future.

A requirement of femininity is that a woman devote her life to love—to mother love, to romantic love, to religious love, to amorphous, undifferentiated caring. The territory of the heart is admittedly a province that is open to all, but women alone are expected to make an obsessional career of its exploration, to find whatever adventure, power, fulfillment or tragedy life has to offer within its bounds. There is no question that a woman is apt to feel more feminine, more confident of her interior gender makeup, when she is reliably within some stage of love—even the girlish crush or the stage of unrequited love or a broken heart. Men have suffered for love, and men have accomplished great feats in the name of love, but what man has ever felt at the top of his masculine form when he is lovesick or suffering from heartache?

 

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