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“To be psychologically oppressed is to be weighed down in your mind; it is to have a harsh dominion exercised over your self-esteem.”
― Sandra Lee Bartky, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression

“Socially speaking, if sex happened, or if a woman had ever had sex before, especially with the accused, her consent is effectively assumed. She has to disprove it. In unequal societies in which women are sexually defined, it is a social burden of proof women enter into the law of sexual assault already carrying. The setup, social and legal, is: sex happened; prove you did not let it happen. Consensual is a fall-back stand-in for “it wasn’t so bad” in societies in which sex by definition fulfills rather than violates women, because sex is what women are for.”
― Catharine A. MacKinnon

“The Young-Girl covets commodities with an eye filled with envy, because she sees her prototype in them, that is, she sees herself, only more perfect. What remains of her humanity is not only what she lacks in commodity perfection, it is also the cause of all her suffering. It is this remaining humanity, therefore, that she must eradicate.”
― Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

“The female life-force itself is characterized as a negative one: we are defined as inherently masochistic; that is, we are driven toward pain and abuse, toward self-destruction, toward annihilation—and this drive toward our own negation is precisely what identifies us as women. In other words, we are born so that we may be destroyed.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics