Marilyn Frye Quotes on Politics
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 politics, 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:
“To see clearly what oppression is, you must look at the macroscopic structure of the wires.”
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Attributed to Marilyn Frye:
“Anger that wakes the world is the work of philosophy as much as of politics.”
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Attributed to Marilyn Frye:
“Whiteness is a kind of looking that does not know it is looking.”