48 Quotes About Women-s-liberation

When women's lib hit the headlines many of these second-generation ranch women sniffed around its edges and pitched it back like a dead carp. If equality meant doing a man's work, you could have it. That brand of equality had dug their mothers an early grave and was three feet down on their own. They'd come a long way baby, and were on the road back to being real ladies -- or so it appeared.

Women’s liberation did not see the female’s potential in terms of the male’s actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.

[...] e essa ideia de ter um filho homem era como a revanche de todas as suas impotências passadas. Um homem ao menos é livre; pode percorrer as paixões e os países, atravessar os obstáculos, ir atrás das alegrias mais distintas. Ao mesmo tempo inerte e flexível, a mulher tem a seu desfavor as fraquezas da carne e as dependências da lei. Sua vontade, como o véu do chapéu retido por uma fita, palpita ao sabor de todos os ventos; sempre há algum desejo que arrasta, alguma conveniência que retém.