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{{Quote|"To love is an active verb, and woman is a passive noun. He loves—she is loved."}} | {{Quote|"To love is an active verb, and woman is a passive noun. He loves—she is loved."}} | ||
{{Quote|"Women amount to nothing by themselves but mean everything to us, and are everything for us. They are our honor and our shame; our greatest joy, and our deepest pain and distress; our redemption and our fall; our reward and our punishment; our strength and our weakness."}} | {{Quote|"Women amount to nothing by themselves but mean everything to us, and are everything for us. They are our honor and our shame; our greatest joy, and our deepest pain and distress; our redemption and our fall; our reward and our punishment; our strength and our weakness."}} | ||
==1854-1925: E. Belfort Bax== | |||
{{Quote|"And while male man has ceased to represent a sex, in developing into the human personality complete up to date; woman still represents a sexual principle; her personality centres in sex, in fact she still remains for the most part, an amplified, beautified, embellished sexual organ."|''Some Heterodox Notes on the Women Question''<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/bax/1887/07/woman-question.htm</ref>}} | |||
{{Quote|"[the idea that] women are, and have been in the past, grievously oppressed by men, is, on one side of it wholly false, and on the other true only to a very limited extent ... Now, as a matter of fact, at no period of the world’s history has the female sex constituted a disinherited or oppressed class. Women may have been liable to certain disabilities. But these have been always compensated and often more than compensated by exemptions and special privileges. Economically, although dependent on men, women have for the most part had the “lion’s share at the banquet of life.”|''ibid''}} | |||
{{Quote|"As a friend intimately acquainted with current political life recently observed to me, what these people want to get the suffrage for is not to further any broad social views whatever, but simply to get infamous laws passed against men as men. This I believe to be true. What they really want is the erection of a sex domination.|''ibid''}} | |||
==1856-1939: Sigmund Freud== | ==1856-1939: Sigmund Freud== | ||
{{Quote|"Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own."}} | {{Quote|"Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own."}} | ||