“I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.”

— Richard Dawkins

As quoted in Richard Dawkins causes outcry after likening the burka to a bin liner https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7936221/Richard-Dawkins-causes-outcry-after-likening-the-burka-to-a-bin-liner.html (10 August 2010), The Telegraph.

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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

Shulamith Firestone book The Dialectic of Sex

Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four

“What I try to do with my images is just give the reader a real feel for a place…It's very visceral. You open the page, and you are right there in the moment.”

Joe Sacco (1960) Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel (b. 1960)

On what he aimed for with his book The Great War in “A Panorama Of Devastation: Drawing Of WWI Battle Spans 24 Feet” https://www.npr.org/2013/11/10/243068448/a-panorama-of-devastation-drawing-of-wwi-battle-spans-24-feet in NPR (2013 Nov 10)

“People don’t revolt because they have been tyrannized, they revolt when they feel the tyranny, for the feeling of oppression is worse than oppression itself”

Ali Al-Wardi (1913–1995) Iraqi sociologist

“It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

“Insulting the hijab is also hardly Islamophobic. Indeed many in the West see the hijab as a symbol of oppression against women, and in opposing it are simply standing up for classical liberal, Western values.”

Raheem Kassam (1986) British journalist and politician

BBC Says Opposing Shariah Law Is ‘Islamophobic’ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08/19/bbc-refusing-shariah-law-islamophobia/ (Aug 19, 2016)

“For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women’s cosmic power.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 11

“I don't want to give the impression that because of gender, I was oppressed. I was, but then I lent myself to it. I regret it, as it was a disservice to women. But I was too unaware for too long.”

Frances Ames (1920–2002) South African physician

van der Unde, "Interview: A woman of substance", SAMJ, Volume 80, No. 11, November 11, 1995, p. 1203.

“Whatever my film work was, it was a departure from the sex symbol previously, who was blonde and more docile than the characters I portrayed as a sex symbol…I think it was a different role for women. Women watch other women, and they are affected by that.”

Raquel Welch (1940–2023) American actress

On how she felt that her early roles were a form of liberation in “Body of Work: Screen Siren Raquel Welch Gets Her Lincoln Center Retrospective” https://observer.com/2012/02/body-of-work-screen-siren-raquel-welch-gets-her-lincoln-center-retrospective/ in The Observer (2012 Feb 7)

“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1939) American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist

Source: Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

“Women have conceptualized less in history not because men have kept them from doing so but because women do not need to conceptualize in order to exist. […] Fetishism, for instance, a practice which like most of the sex perversions is confined to men, is clearly a conceptualizing or symbol-making activity. Man’s vastly greater commercial patronage of pornography is analogous.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 20

“I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.”

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