Marilyn Frye Quotes on Freedom
Marilyn Frye is an American radical feminist philosopher, professor emerita at Michigan State University, and one of the most influential feminist analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Marilyn Frye on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Marilyn Frye:
“Oppression is the bird-cage; one bar alone does not make a cage, but together the bars trap.”
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Attributed to Marilyn Frye:
“The right to be wrong about one's own life is not a small right; it is half of the right to live.”
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“Efficient exploitation requires that those exploited be relatively mobile, self-animating and self-maintaining—the more so as the work in question requires greater intelligence, attention or ingenuity. But it also requires that they not be free enough, strong enough or willful enough to resist, escape or significantly misfit the situation of exploitation.”
p. 59 -
“If we have no intuition of ourselves as independent, unmediated beings in the world, then we cannot conceive ourselves surviving our liberation; for what our liberation will do is dissolve the structures and dismantle the mechanisms by which Woman is mediated by Man. If we cannot imagine ourselves surviving this, we certainly will not make it happen.”
p. 80