The End of Woman Quotes

“On top of everything else, women are not happy. A dramatic 2009 study issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research revealed that women are not growing happier as feminist ideals are embraced. In fact, the opposite is true. In the 1970s, women rated their overall life satisfaction higher than men did, but it has been on the steady decline ever since. The study revealed that “women of all education groups have become less happy over time with declines in happiness having been steepest among those with some college.” The study also concluded that “on average, women are less happy with their marriage than men and women have become less happy with their marriage over time.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“In 1897, the socialist paper Lucifer explained that its work was to “preach the gospel of discontent to women, to mothers and prospective mothers of the human races.” “Women,” the editor added, “are not awake to the fact that they are slaves—not conscious of their own degradation as individual human beings.”1”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“Women need men and men need women—and children need both parents.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“Civilizations are hollowed out by their own decadence instead of being pulled down by outside aggressors.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“How could something that homosexuals don’t need swing the general opinion about homosexuality? Sanger and birth control, particularly the arrival of the Pill, transformed sex in the American and Western mind. Prior to these generally effective, though certainly not foolproof, ways of controlling birth—something previous generations of feminists could have only dreamed of—sexuality was always tightly connected in people’s minds with fertility. Sex meant children. With birth control’s arrival, sex no longer had to include children. Sex could be only about pleasure and uniting a couple together, through the release of significant bonding hormones. Suddenly, sex could be about feelings and pleasure it produced without any concern for babies. It took a while for the childless notion of sex to take hold of culture, but as the LGBT+ movement made inroads, people began to ask themselves: How is their sex any different than ours? We do it for pleasure. They do it for pleasure. We don’t have children unless we want to children. They don’t have children. Fertility and babies became terribly passé unless one was actively trying to achieve pregnancy or if something didn’t work as promised.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“For 150 years, women agitated against the patriarchy but never quite figured out a way to erase it completely. Then it happened, as if the magic spell had been discovered. Women found the secret way to bring down the patriarchy once and for all in Kate Millett’s litany: destroying the family.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“We have been lulled into thinking that all the millions of dead children are not a problem. In fact, they might just be the solution, the LEGO® box of spare parts for our medical needs or the wide array of other uses. We may have been successful in making life “tidy, elegant, and long,” but the pirates are truly still with us, still plundering, lying, and slaughtering. Although they may be polished, creased, ironed, slicked, and starched, they know how to capitalize off the very young, the weak, and the defenseless. Thousands are killed daily in the form of abortion, with populations the size of Ukraine or Spain being wiped out each year.28”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“Mary Wollstonecraft's main concerns were that women of her day were coquettish, too focused on vain pleasures like clothing and beauty, too intent on having a small appetite, too engrossed in alluring men, while remaining mis- or undereducated. Well over two hundred years later, women appear to have many of these same vices, despite the overwhelming effort to reshape and reform the minds of women.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“The Soviets, given the communist priority of work and political party over all else, viewed women through an androgynous lens, sending women out to work, corralling children in government care, and providing limitless abortions to ensure that work wasn’t interrupted under the justification of liberation. Many of these ideals would make their way into American culture forty to fifty years later, and the Congress of American Women (CAW) was an important part of that effort.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“Much of women’s unhappiness can be tied to the rise of “bureaugamy.” Bureaugamy is a term coined by the sociologist Lionel Tiger. Bureaugamy is the relationship that has developed in which a woman’s core needs are met by the state, and not her father or spouse. The progressive solution has been to fix or shore up problems with the help of more government assistance and programs to take the place the family once held.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“profligate”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“There are plenty of examples in the culture today, with pressure on men to call themselves feminists or the vitriol hurled at manly men, packed neatly into the phrase “toxic masculinity.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“Scientific data concerning when life begins, or when a child’s life is worth saving, elude our public narrative. Pro-lifers are willing to debate, but those on the pro-choice side know they will be trounced. They don’t have reason on their side, just tired and old rhetoric.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“Meanwhile, biological men in women’s clothing have increasingly encroached on celebrity, sports, and politics. TIME magazine’s “Woman of the Year” Caitlyn Jenner, the first “female” four-star admiral in the Commissioned Corps Rachel Levine and the NCAA “female” swimming champion Lia Thomas are all lauded as examples of female achievement, despite their radically distinct hormonal baselines, higher testosterone levels, and greater physical strength, especially in the upper body.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

“The second issue is that men are now edging women out of prized positions and awards while wearing dresses and heels. The hottest flashpoint in the culture today is the transgender movement, with the progressive mob even coming after feminists, such as the famed author of the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling. Anyone who dares to oppose the idea that men can become women (or vice versa) is targeted. Activists use the derogatory term “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” or “TERFs,” to criticize those who, like Rowling, embrace the idea that a woman is someone who is a biological female, from birth, distinct from mere gender expression.”
― Carrie Gress, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us