1. “A woman simply is, but a man must become.”
2. “When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.”
3. “Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.”
4. “Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.”
5. “Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
6. “If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
7. “If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life’s goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.”
8. “Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”
9. “When feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.”
10. “Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women’s movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There’s no room for dissent.”
11. “Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.”
12. “All objects, all phases of culture are alive They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!”
13. In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of the public education.”
14. “When anything goes, it’s women who lose.”
15. “Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.”
