Marilyn Frye Quotes on Knowledge
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 knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Marilyn Frye:
“To see clearly what oppression is, you must look at the macroscopic structure of the wires.”
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Attributed to Marilyn Frye:
“Whiteness is a kind of looking that does not know it is looking.”
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“Men see with arrogant eyes which organize everything seen with reference to themselves and their own interests.”
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“The forces of men’s material and perceptual violence mold Woman to dependence upon Man, in every meaning of 'dependence': contingent upon; conditional upon; necessitated by; defined in terms of; incomplete or unreal without; requiring the support or assistance of; being a subordinate part of; being an appurtenance to.”
p. 77