Politics Quotes

"We are not simply bodies; we are political beings."

"The personal struggle against exploitation is fundamentally political."

"The system was designed to keep us divided and powerless."

"The personal becomes political when we stop accepting injustice."

"The system benefits from our self-doubt and isolation."

"The personal struggles of women are always political struggles."

"The compulsory heterosexuality that the female must endure ensures her physical, economic, and emotional dependence on the male."

"The tragedy of sexual politics is that ideology must inevitably homogenize character."

"Patriarchy is an old-boy's network."

"Heterosexuality is not a natural preference but a political institution."

"To be human, especially female, is to be in a personal political situation."

"One cannot be a feminist and not understand that to be a lesbian is to be politically committed."

"The state is a patriarchal institution that enforces male dominance."

"The personal is political; there can be no separation."

"The body is a site of political struggle and social meaning."

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."

"The political is personal."

"Joy is a political act"

"The personal is always political"

"The most important thing we can do right now is to be active participants in the political process."

"The personal is always political."

"The biological family is the basis of all oppressive structures in society."

"The personal is political, and the intimate is never merely private."

"Women's bodies are treated as public property and public battlegrounds."

"The personal realm has been used to hide systemic injustice and prevent collective action."

"The nuclear family isolates women and prevents them from building solidarity with each other."

"The body politic requires the same liberation as the individual body."

"Women's second shift at home ensures they remain too exhausted for political organization."

"The personal struggle to escape patriarchal conditioning is inherently political."

"Every institution in society works to maintain women's subordination to men."